ArcelorMittal shutters Hamilton wire works, moves production to Montreal
Published by:Dan Hilliard<>
11 Jun 2025 @ 19:11 UTC

ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada (AMLPC) is shuttering its Hamilton, Ontario, wire works and shifting all production to its Montreal, Quebec, site, according to a company release. The move comes amid a long period of stability for low-carbon wire rod pries and a tumultuous tariff situation within the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement trading zone.
The Hamilton shutdown will affect 153 employees at the site.
It is never an easy decision to close a site, AMLPC president and chief executive officer Stephane Brochu said in the release. The restructuring we are announcing today was necessary to ensure the sustainability of our wire drawing activities. It will allow us to improve our operational efficiency and secure our long-term competitiveness in the demanding wire drawing market.
The wire rod capacity of AMLPC’s Contrecoeur-East mill, near its Montreal drawing facility, totals 415,000 tonnes per year, according to data from the Association for Iron and Steel Technology.
Wire rod — primarily ductile low-carbon varieties — serves as the feedstock for drawn wire products.
Fastmarkets’ latest monthly assessment for steel wire rod (low carbon) industrial quality at $47-53 per hundredweight on May 20, unchanged since March 19, when it ticked up by 5.26% from $45 per cwt in February.
On the trade front, Canadian steelmakers have been trying to make business sense of a surprise doubling of steel tariffs by US President Donald Trump on May 30.
Work is continuing on urgent action to support Canada’s steel sector, stabilize the domestic market and improve our longer-term viability in the face of mounting global trade disruption, Catherine Cobden, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Steel Producers Association, said on June 6, adding that a solution may be put forward later this month.