Harsco gets $100 Mln. steel mill services contract in Italy

Harsco gets $100 Mln. steel mill services contract in Italy. Friday 30, engineered products company Harsco Corp. said its global Harsco Metals division has been awarded a 10-year, $100 million contract by Italy-based steel producer Lucchini Piombino to provide a range of on-site services. Harsco will begin work in the second half of 2010 for on-site slag transport and slag processing at the Lucchini Piombino works, largely owned by OAO Severstal (SVST.L: News ), in the western coast of Italy. Harsco is already supporting two Severstal mills in France. Harsco indicated the Lucchini Piombino plant to manufacture a range of steel products for infrastructure and construction companies and a leading producer of high-quality wire rods for welding and other applications. The plant is also one of the few qualified European producers of 108 meter/354 foot-length rail for high speed and conventional railways.