Severstal North America (SNA)
Increasing Galvanizing Production by 500,000 tons per year

Severstal North America approached JNE Consulting to provide Front End Engineering (FEE) services for a new 500,000 ton per year automotive exposed Hot Dip Coating Line (HDCL) as part of SNA’s Cold Mill Modernization project at their Dearborn - Michigan facility.

JNE assembled a team to assist SNA in compiling a scope of work and specifications to competitively bid the design and supply of all line equipment for the new facility. During the bid process, JNE developed a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for the entire project. The WBS included scope and budget pricing for the site work, utility servicing, engineering, supply, fabrication, installation and commissioning of the complete facility. The bids were analyzed and the successful equipment vendor was selected. JNE was chosen to provide
full construction engineering services for the project.

Communications between JNE’s design team and the project team in Dearborn were essentially seamless. Through a combination of teleconferences, periodic site meetings, drawings and documents transfers via FTP site and email correspondence, JNE was able to fully support SNA’s engineering requirements throughout all stages of the project. JNE supplemented these communications with travel to the equipment vendor, the building vendor and the constructor’s offices.

In addition to the original construction engineering scope, JNE has also been asked to provide balance of plant automation and programming through JNE Automation.

This project was a significant undertaking for a new client and all team members stepped up to their respective challenges and contributed to its success. JNE currently has a continued mutually rewarding relationship with Severstal.