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  • noun Plural form of minimill.

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Examples

  • Operated at less than full capacity, these mills are less efficient than the equally large "minimills," like Nucor, whose electric arc furnaces can be operated efficiently at lower speeds.

    NYT > Global Home 2009

  • Operated at less than full capacity, these mills are less efficient than the equally large "minimills," like Nucor, whose electric arc furnaces can be operated efficiently at lower speeds.

    NYT > Global Home 2009

  • Operated at less than full capacity, these mills are less efficient than the equally large "minimills," like Nucor, whose electric arc furnaces can be operated efficiently at lower speeds.

    Reflector - Latest Headlines from The Daily Reflector 2009

  • Indeed, the steel industry has steadily reduced the amount of carbon emissions, but that is because of the growing production of steel made by minimills, which melt down scrap steel into new steel.

    Steel Braces for Impact 2009

  • While minimills wouldn't be as affected by the legislation as integrated mills, they still oppose the current plan.

    Steel Braces for Impact 2009

  • Unlike most U.S. steel minimills, the footprint of Commercial Metals, of Irving, Texas, extends overseas, with a marketing arm buying and selling scrap metal, iron ore and coking coal the world over, including the Middle East, China and Central Europe.

    Patience Seen as a Virtue in Oil Services 2009

  • But this change occurred only after a dramatic restructuring of the industry in the face of fierce competition from new "minimills."

    Detroit Needs a Selloff, Not a Bailout 2008

  • By the time the larger companies -- Bethlehem, LTV, Weirton and others -- collapsed into bankruptcy, they had already shed a vast amount of uneconomic capacity and ceded the production of certain types of products to the minimills.

    Detroit Needs a Selloff, Not a Bailout 2008

  • However, he said, the company plans to build two minimills by 2011 -- each with a capacity of one million metric tons a year -- in Russia's Saratov and Ivanovo regions.

    Severstal Net More Than Doubles 2008

  • For example, Arcelor Mittal has become a powerhouse by acquiring integrated mills that struggled to respond to the disruption of steel minimills.

    Scott Anthony: Blockbuster's Questionable Bid for Circuit City 2008

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