The Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corporation steelworks is situated in Witbank, with the domestic sales office in Johannesburg. Highveld was established in 1960 and the current annual rated capacity of the Steelworks is one million tons of hot metal cast into billets, blocks and slabs. From this, approximately 350 000 tons are rolled to medium/heavy structural sections, rounds and rails with about 200 000 tons rolled as plate and 180 000 tons as hot rolled coil. Semi-finished products, such as billets are cast or rolled, depending on market demand and steel availability.

The Highveld Steel product range consists of:

STEEL PRODUCTS

• Rolled billets
• Cast billets
• Cast blocks
• Cast slabs
• Universal beams
• Universal bearing piles
• Universal columns
• Universal joists
• Parallel flange channels
• Universal metric beams (on application only)
• Commercial rails
• Sleeper bars
• Rounds
• Plates
• Hot rolled coil and strip

ALLOYS AND VANADIUM PRODUCTS

At Transalloys, silicomanganese and medium carbon ferromanganese are produced for both the local and export markets.

At Rand Carbide, ferrosilicon, as well as various carbonaceous products, are produced, mainly for the local market.

Vanchem produces a variety of vanadium products, including oxides, ferrovanadium, ferrovanadium nitrade and chemicals.

A fully certified system is in operation throughout all the various manufacturing processes. This system is documented in accordance with the requirements of DIN EN ISO 9002 –2000.