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October 4, 2022 – WASHINGTON, D.C. –  The American Iron and Steel Institute’s (AISI) Board of Directors today elected Joe Burkey, Regional President, Harsco North America, as a member of the AISI Board and last night awarded Joseph Turner, senior advisor to Fluor and Primary Energy, the AISI “Lifetime Steel Champion Award.”

The Cokenergy and Enerfab leadership team members attended the NMAPC 21st annual Zero Injury Safety Award Gala in Washington DC on October 21st, 2021, to receive an award for 2020.

The SEEIT fund has been a co-owner of Primary Energy since February 2020, but as of September 30, 2021, SEEIT is now the full owner of Primary Energy.

For the past 20 years the National Maintenance Agreements Policy Committee (NMAPC) has been honoring safety accomplishments at the annual Zero Injury Safety Awards (ZISA) gala.  This year the awards were virtual due to the ongoing pandemic.  

Primary Energy’s employees were not able to volunteer in person this year due to COVID-19 safety restrictions, however the need for assistance is greater than ever as families and the elderly have been impacted by the pandemic. Donations across NW Indiana and Illinois, where the company and many of its employees reside, were distributed throughout the month of June. As a company we wanted to reach out to our local community food pantry that supply resources to those particular hit hard by COVID-19.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (January 9, 2020) – Fortistar, a sustainability‐focused private energy investment and operating company helping to facilitate the transition to a carbon‐free economy, along with its partners have entered into an agreement to sell 50% of the shares of Primary Energy to SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust (SEEIT). Primary Energy Recycling has a 298 MW portfolio of waste heat to power (WHP) and combined heat and power (CHP) plants located at two of the most efficient steel mills in North America belonging to ArcelorMittal S.A. and United States Steel Corporation, selling discounted electrical and thermal energy to the mills under long‐term stable contractual arrangements. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2020 and Fortistar will continue to manage the company. Read more»