Newcastle Works, located in the northern part of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province, is the country’s foremost supplier of profile products. This highly efficient and low cost operation, rated among the lowest billet cash-cost producer's in the world by a leading commodities research institute, bears testimony to the success of the intensive re-engineering programmes undertaken at ArcelorMittal South Africa The plant employs around 2237 permanent staff and 51 contract employees. The plant has the capacity to produce 1.9 million tonnes per annum post the reline in 2014. The profile products produced include low and medium-carbon commercial grades, low-carbon rimming steel substitutes, sulphur containing free-cutting steels, micro-alloyed steels, high-carbon wire-rod steels and low, medium and high-alloy steels
