Commercial Metals Company manufactures, recycles, and markets steel and metal products, and related materials and services in the United States and internationally. The company processes scrap metals for use as a raw material by manufacturers of new metal products through 33 scrap metal processing facilities to steel mills and foundries, aluminum sheet and ingot manufacturers, brass and bronze ingot makers, copper refineries and mills, secondary lead smelters, specialty steel mills, high temperature alloy manufacturers, and other consumers. It also operates five steel mills producing reinforcing bars, angles, flats, rounds, small beams, fence-post sections, and other shapes; two scrap metal shredder and processing facilities; a railroad salvage company; and a copper tube minimill. In addition, the company conducts fabrication operations, fence post manufacturing plants, and construction-related and other product facilities that operate through a network of steel plants that bend, cut, weld, and fabricate steel; warehouses that sell or rent products for the installation of concrete; plants that produce steel fence posts; and plants that heat-treat steel. Further, it operates two rolling mills that produce reinforcing bar and merchant products; a rolling mill that produces wire rods; a specialty rod finishing mill; scrap processing facilities that support minimills; and four steel fabrication plants for reinforcing bar and mesh products. Additionally, the company markets and distributes steel, copper and aluminum coils, sheets and tubing, ores, metal concentrates, industrial minerals, ferroalloys, and chemicals to the manufacturers in the steel, nonferrous metals, metal fabrication, chemical, refractory, and transportation businesses. Commercial Metals Company was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.