National Port Said Steel established its first plant in 2000 with a designed capacity of 350,000 tons/yr steel rebar located in Port Said city. NPSS has also been granted the license to build its second plant in Ain Al Sokhna (under construction). The plant uses the latest Danieli technology by rolling the Billets to rebar through Endless Rolling. This technology is distinguished for saving time and energy in reheating billets, making it among the first plants in the world to apply this technology. Al Ain Al Sokhna is scheduled to commence operations by the fourth quarter of 2017