Note 1. Description of the Business and Significant Accounting Policies

Description of the Business

Steel Dynamics, Inc. (SDI), together with its subsidiaries (the company), is a domestic manufacturer of steel products and metals recycler. The company has three reporting segments: steel operations, metals recycling and ferrous resources operations, and steel fabrication operations.

Steel Operations. Steel operations include the company’s Butler Flat Roll Division, Columbus Flat Roll Division (acquired September 16, 2014), The Techs galvanizing lines, Structural and Rail Division, Engineered Bar Products Division, Roanoke Bar Division, and Steel of West Virginia. These operations consist of electric arc furnace steel mills, producing steel from ferrous scrap, utilizing continuous casting, automated rolling mills, and eight downstream coating facilities. Steel operations accounted for 69% and 61% of the company’s consolidated external net sales during the three-month periods ended June 30, 2015 and 2014, and 68% and 61% of the company’s consolidated external net sales during the six-month periods ended June 30, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

Metals Recycling and Ferrous Resources Operations. Metals recycling and ferrous resources operations primarily include OmniSource Corporation (OmniSource), the company’s metals recycling and processing locations, ferrous scrap procurement, and an ironmaking facility, Iron Dynamics (IDI), a liquid pig iron production facility. Our other ironmaking operations located in Minnesota were indefinitely idled in May 2015, due to a significant and sustained decline in global pig iron pricing, which resulted in the cost of iron nugget production being higher than product selling values. Metals recycling and ferrous resources operations accounted for 23% and 31% of the company’s consolidated external net sales during the three-month periods ended June 30, 2015, and 2014, and 23% and 31% of the company’s consolidated external net sales during the six-month periods ended June 30, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

Steel Fabrication Operations. Steel fabrication operations include the company’s six New Millennium Building Systems’ joist and deck plants located throughout the United States and Northern Mexico. Revenues from these plants are generated from the fabrication of trusses, girders, steel joists and steel decking used within the non-residential construction industry. Steel fabrication operations accounted for approximately 8% and 7% of the company’s consolidated external net sales during the three-month periods ended June 30, 2015, and 2014, and 8% and 6% of the company’s consolidated external net sales during the six-month periods ended June 30, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

Significant Accounting Policies

Principles of Consolidation. The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of SDI, together with its wholly and majority-owned or controlled subsidiaries, after elimination of significant intercompany accounts and transactions. Noncontrolling interests represent the noncontrolling owner’s proportionate share in the equity, income, or losses of the company’s majority-owned or controlled consolidated subsidiaries.

Use of Estimates. These financial statements are prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, and accordingly, include amounts that require management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and in the notes thereto. Significant items subject to such estimates and assumptions include the carrying value of property, plant and equipment, intangible assets, and goodwill; valuation allowances for trade receivables, inventories and deferred income tax assets; unrecognized tax benefits; potential environmental liabilities; and litigation claims and settlements. Actual results may differ from these estimates and assumptions.

In the opinion of management, these financial statements reflect all normal recurring adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of the interim period results. These financial statements and notes should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and notes thereto included in the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014.

Goodwill. The company’s goodwill is allocated to the following reporting units at June 30, 2015, and December 31, 2014, (in thousands):

	June 30,		December 31,
	2015		2014
OmniSource — Metals Recycling/Ferrous Resources Segment	$	453,467	$	456,727
The Techs — Steel Segment	142,783		142,783
Butler Flat Roll Division, Structural and Rail Division, and Engineered Bar Division — Metals Recycling and Ferrous Resources Segment	95,000		95,000
Roanoke Bar Division — Steel Segment	29,041		29,041
Columbus Flat Roll Division — Steel Segment	19,682		19,682
New Millennium Building Systems — Fabrication Segment	1,925		1,925

	$	741,898	$	745,158

OmniSource goodwill decreased $3.3 million from December 31, 2014 to June 30, 2015, in recognition of the 2015 tax benefit related to the amortization of the component of OmniSource tax-deductible goodwill in excess of book goodwill.

Recently Issued Accounting Standards.

In May 2014, the FASB issued guidance codified in ASC 606, Revenue Recognition — Revenue from Contracts with Customers, which amends the guidance in former ASC 605, Revenue Recognition. The core principle of ASC 606 is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. Because the guidance in ASC 606 is principles-based, it can be applied to all contracts with customers regardless of industry-specific or transaction-specific fact patterns. Additionally, ASC 606 requires additional disclosures to help users of financial statements better understand the nature, amount, timing, and potential uncertainty of revenue that is recognized. This guidance is effective, as deferred by the FASB on July 9, 2015, for annual and interim periods ending after December 15, 2017, but can be early adopted for annual and interim periods ending after December 15, 2016. The company is currently evaluating the impact of the provisions of ASC 606, including the timing of adoption.

In August 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-15, Presentation of Financial Statements — Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40: Disclosure of Uncertainties about an Entity’s Ability to Continue as a Going Concern), effective for annual and interim periods ending after December 15, 2016. ASU 2014-15 requires management to evaluate whether there are conditions or events, considered in aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the financial statements are issued. There are required disclosures if principal conditions or events are identified that raised substantial doubt about the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern (before consideration of management’s plans), as well as management’s evaluation of the significance of those conditions or events in relation to the entity’s ability to meet its obligations, and management’s plans that alleviated substantial doubt about the entity’s ability to continue as a going concern. This ASU is not expected to have any impact on our overall results of operations, financial position or cash flows.

In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-03, Interest — Imputation of Interest (Subtopic 835-30) — Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs, which requires debt issuance costs to be presented as a deduction from the corresponding debt liability, rather than as a separate asset, which is the current accounting method of the company. Implementation of this new guidance is required by the company in the first quarter of 2016, but can be early adopted. Upon adoption, the company must apply the new guidance retrospectively to all prior periods presented in the financial statements. The company is currently evaluating when, and the manner in which to adopt the presentation and disclosure requirements of the new guidance, however we do not expect it to have any impact on our overall results of operations, equity or cash flows as previously reported.

In July 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-11, Inventory (Topic 330): Simplifying the Measurement of Inventory, which requires an entity to measure inventory at the lower of cost and net realizable value, rather than at the lower of cost or market. This new guidance is effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016, but can be early adopted. The company is currently evaluating the impact of this ASU’s adoption.