Products made at the unit are used in a number of industries including construction, automotive, manufacturing and transportation. Metals Recycling Operations: The operations of the division include ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal processing, transportation, marketing and brokerage services. The unit purchases, processes and resales ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals into reusable forms and grades. End-users of these products include electric arc furnace steel mills, integrated steelmakers, foundries, secondary smelters and metal brokers. Steel Fabrication Operations: The unit produces steel building components, including steel joists, girders, trusses and steel deck. The division's main customers are non-residential steel fabricators. Steel Dynamics, in 2018, acquired Heartland Steel Processing, LLC from CSN Steel, S.L.U., for $400 million.