Saudi Iron and Steel Company (Hadeed) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic), whose vision is to be a leading global manufacturer and marketer of hydrocarbon and metal products, which include basic and intermediate chemicals, polymer resins and polyesters, fertilisers, metals and industrial gases.

Established in 1979 on a 4.4 sq km plot in Jubail Industrial City, Hadeed was the first integrated iron and steel complex in Saudi Arabia, coming on stream in 1983 with an original design capacity of 800,000 tonnes per year.
Through successive technical enhancements and expansions, Hadeed's annual production capacity has risen to exceed 3.5 million tonnes of finished iron and steel products.
Hadeed's mission is to be the provider of comprehensive and competitive steel products through employee empowerment with safe and environmentally sound practices. And its vision is to be the leading producer and marketer of steel products in the Middle East and North Africa.
The company is a progressive and influential leader in the growing industrial sector of the Middle East, and a worthy example for the steel industry worldwide.
This is borne out by Hadeed's following achievements: contributions to the development of construction in the Kingdom; meeting most of the local market requirements for rebars, wire rods and light sections; commitment to introducing the latest production technologies that ensure better quality and reduce production costs; commitment to the development of human resources through continuous investment in training, whether on-the-job or through training courses, to enhance the capabilities of Saudi employees; application of incentive and employee benefit programmes that offer many benefits, including housing, social security, and sports and recreational programmes; responsiveness to market changes that have guided the company from a localised approach to market dealings to a wider global reach; and the leadership that is vital for pioneering the required change and transformation of the steel industry.
In short, Hadeed builds its market leadership through: responsiveness to change; responsiveness to customer needs; commitment to quality; commitment to safety; environmental awareness; and development of human resources.
Hadeed is committed to employee development through continuous investment in training, both in-house and outsourced.
Combined with sustained efforts to enhance the capabilities and skills of Saudi employees, Hadeed offers various incentives to develop new mindsets and improve team work in its people.
Hadeed's experience and success in the steel industry encouraged its investment in new facilities for the production of flat steel products, including hot rolled products, cold rolled products, and galvanised products.
A new Flat Products Facility (FPF) is located in Jubail Industrial City, adjacent to the Hadeed Long Products Complex, and is comprised of a direct reduction plant; steel plant; hot strip mill; finishing facilities; and a cold mill complex.
The FPF started commercial production in July 2000 with an annual production capacity of 800,000 tonnes.
The plant is designed to accommodate future expansions that will allow an annual production capacity of two million tonnes.
A pre-existing expansion plan includes the construction of an additional direct reduction module, an electric arc furnace, a ladle furnace, a steel slab casting machine, a slab-reheating furnace, a second down coiler, an additional finishing mill stand, and a hot skin pass mill.
The Flat Steel Products Facility is an integrated amalgamation of separate sections which include the direct reduction (DR) Plant.
The DR Plant Module 'D' employs the HYL3 process to convert iron ore into directly reduced iron (sponge iron).
It is designed to produce 155 tonnes per hour of directly reduced iron (DRI) with 93 per cent metallisation and 1.8 per cent carbon content.
Normal production is expected to be 140 tonnes per hour, or more than 1.1 million tonnes annually.
Another arm of the facility is the steel plant. It converts sponge iron, ferrous scrap and other additives into steel slabs. Its main constituents are: an electric arc furnace (EAF) with 150 tonnes heat size, a ladle furnace (LF), and a single strand slab caster.
The EAF melts sponge iron and scrap into liquid steel, which is subsequently cast into 220mm thick slabs. The annual capacity of the EAF is more than 0.9 million tonnes.
The Hot Strip and Finishing Facilities are semi-continuous types and the latter includes reheating furnace, a reversing roughing stand with hydraulic vertical edger, a coil box, a finishing mill with five stands equipped with HAGC & CVCA laminar cooling zone, a downcoiler and inspection station.
The Mill Complex includes a push pickling line, a four-high cold reversing mill, a batch annealing facility, a four-high temper mill, a continuous hot dip galvanising line, a cold slitting and recoiling line, and a packaging and dispatching section.
The products themselves are three fold:  hot rolled products, cold rolled, and galvanised.
Hot rolled products include coils, plates and slit rings of commercial, drawing, structural, pressure vessel, API line pipe and high strength micro-alloyed steel grades.
The thickness of these products ranges between 1.5 and 16 mm while the width ranges between 850 and 1,650 mm.
Hot rolled products meet the dimensional and shape tolerances as per American, Japanese  and European standards and other specifications.
The cold rolled products include coils and slit rings of commercial, structural, high strength micro-alloyed and drawing steel grades.
These products satisfy the requirements of manufacturing companies with respect to product strength, ductility and weldability.
Drawing or similar qualities suitable for forming, bending and deep drawing are produced according to required specifications in order to meet the requirements of the building, white goods and other industries. Cold rolled products meet the dimensional and shape tolerances as per American, Japanese, European standards and other specifications.
Galvanised products include coils and slit rings of commercial, lock forming, full hard, drawing and structural grades to meet customer requirements.
These products are used in air-conditioning, refrigeration, pre-painted coating, panels and appliance industries. Galvanised products meet the dimensional and shape tolerances as per American, Japanese, European standards and other specifications.