CONTRECOEUR, September 9, 2014 – ArcelorMittal Canada, the country’s leading steel and mining company, released its first-ever Corporate Responsibility Report today covering all of its Canadian mining and manufacturing operations’ for the year 2013, namely:
- ArcelorMittal Dofasco
- ArcelorMittal Mining Canada G.P.
- ArcelorMittal Infrastructure Canada G.P.
- ArcelorMittal Montreal (Long Carbon North America)
- ArcelorMittal Tubular Products
As the heads of the company’s Canadian business units stated in a joint letter featured in the document, “this report is a key part of our commitment to transparency and open dialogue with key stakeholders. In 2013, we continued to make improvements across a number of areas in the four pillars that underpin our approach to corporate responsibility: investing in our people, making steel more sustainable, enriching our communities, and transparent governance.”
The report is organized based on those four pillars and highlights many the organization’s improvements and accomplishments in 2013. Here are some from ArcelorMittal Montreal:
- Investing in our people – ArcelorMittal Montreal gives their 1,750 employees exciting employment opportunities and training as well as a safe working environment, with a record-low lost-time injury rate (LTI) of 1.29 per million hours worked in 2013.
- Making steel more sustainable – ArcelorMittal Montreal reuses close to 1 million tonne of scrap steel each year which returns into its steel production process without any loss in quality. This makes us the largest recycler in Quebec. We have also worked to mitigate the environmental impact of our operations, including significantly reducing our locomotives’ diesel consumption in our sites.
- Enriching our communities – Every year, ArcelorMittal Montreal donates hundreds of thousands of dollars to various organizations, causes and individuals to support their community initiatives in the fields of education, environment, sports and recreation, health and social services, and arts and culture. Our goal is to play an active role in the communities in which we operate and where our employees live.
- Transparent governance – ArcelorMittal Montreal ramped up its stakeholder engagement efforts with added opportunities to exchange on community issues, especially regarding how to better manage noise and dust next to our sites.
The report’s content was selected based on the results of an internal materiality assessment exercise that identified key issues of importance to the company’s stakeholders. It also features case studies and examples highlighting key initiatives by individual plants amongst the company’s 17 Canadian locations aligned with the organization’s corporate responsibility strategy.
ArcelorMittal Canada plans to report on its progress on an annual basis as it strives to continuously improve its performance, be its customers’ supplier of choice, remain a top Canadian mining and advanced manufacturing employer, and build its communities’ strength.
About ArcelorMittal Montreal
ArcelorMittal Montreal’s mission is to safely manufacture sustainable steel in accordance with its values of health and safety, quality, leadership and sustainability. The company employs about 1,750 people in 11 facilities in Contrecoeur, Longueuil, Montreal, La Prairie, Hamilton and Ottawa. It operates three scrap-metal conversion and recycling centers, one iron-ore reduction plant, two steel plants, three rolling mills and two wire drawing plants. The group has an annual production capacity of over 2 million tons of steel and generates economic spinoffs of more than $1 billion per year.
ArcelorMittal Montreal is part of ArcelorMittal, the world’s leading integrated steel and mining company, with a presence in more than 60 countries. To learn more about our Canadian operations or to download the report, visit montreal.arcelormittal.com, www.dofasco.ca, or transformerlavenir.com.
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Highlights of the 2013 Corporate Responsibility Report
- Investing in our people – ArcelorMittal Canada directly employed 10,700 Canadians, paid $1.2 billion in total employment costs, directly and through its joint venture Baffinland Iron Mines, improved its lost-time injury (LTI) frequency rate by 45 per cent over 2012 to 0.73 LTI per million hours worked, and provided over 339,000 hours of training.
- Making steel more sustainable – In Canada, ArcelorMittal companies reused 4.85 million tonnes of scrap steel, making it the largest recycler of scrap steel in Quebec and Ontario, and reduced its energy consumption per tonne of steel produced by 1.9% over the previous year.
- Enriching our communities – ArcelorMittal Canada invested $3.26 million in more than 118 community organizations, made more than $5.5 billion in capital investments since 2008, including the development of the Mary River Project in Nunavut, signed an Inuit Impact Benefit Agreement and Commercial Production Lease with the Qikiqtani Inuit Association, and was recognized among Canada’s Top Foreign Corporate Citizens by Corporate Knights.
- Transparent governance – Each of ArcelorMittal’s Canadian mining and manufacturing sites ensured it is a detailed stakeholder engagement plan in place, and the company deployed a proactive internal communications campaign to remind employees of the existence of an anonymous, third-party whistleblower hotline to report any financial misconduct or irregularity.