AltaSteel is an Edmonton based, Canadian manufacturer of prime quality steel products from recycled scrap steel generated within the Alberta community. We supply western Canadian businesses and export to the USA and Mexico.We offer a personal approach to business, and seek to establish long-term customer value propositions and the respect of our employees as the basis for a sustainable business. Drawing our resources from the communities of Edmonton and Strathcona, and in turn seek to provide businesses opportunities, careers and a positive impact on the environment as a recycler.The company now known as AltaSteel was founded in 1955 as Premier Steel Mills Ltd. Before 1955, all steel made in North America was made via blast furnace process from iron ore. However, by 1955, electricity generating facilities and distributing grids became massive enough to make electric furnace steelmaking practical and economical; Premier Steel Mills Ltd became the first steel mill in North America to use an electric arc furnace process to melt and refine scrap steel and then hot-roll the steel into final product shapes.