LIBERTY STEEL GROUP

History

Year	Detail
1992	Sanjeev Gupta, the founder, established Liberty as a trading company focused on Africa and Asia while reading Economics and Management at Trinity College, Cambridge University.
2000-2012	Liberty grew into a commodity trade house focused on ferrous and non-ferrous metals, opening offices in Dubai, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
2013	Liberty entered the steel industrial sector by purchasing former MIR Steel U.K., which is now known as Liberty Steel Newport.
2015	Liberty entered downstream metal manufacturing by acquiring the U.K.'s engineering group Caparo.
2017	Liberty Steel acquired Tata Steel's Speciality Steels business in the U.K., which included three major sites at Rotherham, Stocksbridge, and Brinsworth in South Yorkshire, smaller sites in Bolton, Lancashire, and Wednesbury in the West Midlands, and two distribution centres in China.
2017	Liberty acquired the fully integrated steel producer OneSteel in Australia, which was subsequently rebranded as InfraBuild, a company that provides steel solutions for construction and infrastructure.
2019	Liberty completed the purchase of Keystone Consolidated Industries (KCI), a prominent wire rod producer in the U.S., for $320 million.
2020	Liberty acquired Adhunik Metaliks Ltd (Adhunik) and Zion Steel Ltd (Zion) of India for $60 million in an all-cash deal.
2021	Liberty completed its acquisition of Huta Częstochowa in Poland to create an integrated GREENSTEEL plate business supplying LIBERTY Ostrava.
2023	Liberty acquired Dunaújváros Steelworks in Hungary, manufacturing HRC, CRC, Pickled, and oiled coils.
2023	Liberty signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with AD Ports Group, a global trade, logistics, and industry facilitator, to develop solutions for importing high-quality magnetite ore from Australia to the UAE.