Local managers of ThyssenKrupp AG 's stainless steel unit say the company could start production at its stainless melt shop in Calvert by 2013.

Twenty years ago, Colombia was barely a blip on the radar as far as trade in Mobile was concerned.

30, dragged down by the world recession and heavy spending on projects including the $4.65 billion complex that Germany's largest steelmaker is building in Calvert, 30 miles north of Mobile.

The Mobile skyline is seen from across the Mobile River at the Austal USA facility Wednesday, Mar.

Dunn Building Co. said it was awarded the contract to build a new facility for ThyssenKrupp near Mobile.

James Earl Hulett pleaded guilty today before Baldwin County Circuit Judge Charles Partin on charges relating to money stolen last summer as he impersonated a recruiter for construction workers at the ThyssenKrupp AG site.

The state's custom-built ThyssenKrupp training center will be named for Erich Heine , a company executive who died June 1 when an Air France plane plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean between Brazil and France.

A delegation from Mobile will be in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to support ThyssenKrupp AG's request to be included in Mobile's foreign trade zone.