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Liberty Steel USA, part of Sanjeev Gupta鈥檚 global GFG Alliance聽has made two key management appointments as it continues its expansion in the USA.

Revansidha 鈥楻ohit鈥� Gulve, who led the successful reopening last summer of聽Liberty Steel Georgetown in South Carolina, is moving from his role as general manager there to become general manager at the larger Liberty Steel Peoria in Illinois.

Both mills are major producers of wire rod, a product in which Liberty is aiming to become a US market leader over the coming year. Liberty reopened the shuttered Georgetown mill in summer 2018 and acquired the Peoria site along with several downstream steel assets from KCI in January 2019.

Over recent months Mr Gulve has overseen the steady increase in output from Georgetown and his new appointment signals Liberty鈥檚 intention to deliver strong growth at Peoria also.

Pending the appointment of a permanent replacement at Georgetown, Liberty has engaged highly-experienced international steel executive Marcio Van der Put as acting general manager. Mr Van der Put ran the South Carolina mill under previous owners ArcelorMittal for three years up until 2009 before taking up senior posts with the firm in Brazil, most recently as chief technology officer for long products in that country.

Michael Setterdahl, chief executive of Liberty Steel USA said: 鈥淲e have made substantial progress since we entered the US market last year and Rohit鈥檚 skills and commitment have played a vital part in that. We鈥檙e confident he will now bring continued success and growth to Peoria and give added momentum to Liberty鈥檚 drive forward in the American steel sector.

鈥淚n order to sustain Georgetown鈥檚 journey back to full production, we鈥檙e delighted to have gained the services of Marcio Van der Put, someone not only with a great wire rod pedigree but who also knows this plant inside out,鈥� he added.

Liberty Steel USA now has total electric arc furnace melting capacity of 1.8m tons per annum as well as 1.5m tons of wire rod rolling capacity and substantial value-added downstream businesses and over 1,300 employees based across Illinois, Ohio, South Carolina, New Mexico, Texas, Georgia, Florida and New York City.