Where Industrial Projects Take Flight

Industry and Sustainability Go Hand-in-Hand at GPP


As the leading project development and investment firm in the global metals industry, we focus on developing environmentally sustainable greenfield and expansion projects where we invest our own capital. This model has served us well for over twenty-five years as it perfectly aligns our interest with the interests of the project sponsors, the management and operating teams, and our other funding providers. GPP wins when all win, and we like to win!

From Vision to Victory


We’ve dedicated ourselves to developing and investing in projects that challenge industry norms in terms of environmental stewardship and employee productivity. While others simply talk about becoming “good stewards” of the environment and “empowering” employees, we do it and we do it well. 


Our accomplishments are evidenced by our extensive twenty-five year history. We have founded and helped lead many of the most successful greenfield and expansion projects in the metals industry, both in North America and Southeast Asia, and we have partnered with investors from all over the world. There is a reason our company name includes the word “Global.”

Development and Investment:

Our Winning Combination 

Alongside of our direct investments, we bring a suite of services to our projects. These include site selection, government incentive structuring, power and logistics negotiations, capital raising, technology procurement, construction oversight, and hands-on management. In short, GPP provides everything required to make a project a success. When we put our money to work, we get to work.


Capital Raising and Then Some


Capital raising is where our experience in the metals industry began. We know how to take a project from the conceptual stage to the fully financed construction and operational stages. We have done this many times with enormous success. Expanding beyond our early capital raising focus, GPP grew to become a full project partner, which means we provide day-to-day assistance to project sponsors and project management teams, including holding key management positions as needed.


Investing

We put our money where our mouth is. GPP pursues projects that we are willing to invest in ourselves. We believe strongly in alignment across all project participants, including alignment with project employees. Providing employees an opportunity, not a guarantee, to earn outsized wages is one of the key drivers to our success. 

GPP in the News

Episode three focuses on Hybar, a new venture that aims to become the most cost-efficient and most environmentally sustainable rebar producer in North America. In 2023, Hybar raised $700 million to build and operate a scrap metal recycling steel rebar mill.
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The Green Steel Challenge Podcast

January 9, 2024

Hybar has been honored for its ground-breaking all-electric scrap metal recycling and low carbon steel manufacturing facility being constructed in the US, which it is financing with a "milestone"
green bond.

Environmental Finance

December 13, 2023

"Across the street from the courthouse is the 1915 Coston Building. The ground floor once housed a barbershop and later a hardware store. J.T. Coston, a Vanderbilt-educated lawyer who represented cotton magnate R.E.L. Wilson, had his office upstairs. That office is being used these days for Hybar LLC, a startup company building a steel rebar mill at Osceola that will cost $700 million and employ about 200 people."

Arkansas Democrat Gazette

October 29, 2023

Listen as Hybar CEO Dave Stickler discusses the difference between the steel market today and that of years prior, especially regarding sustainability and material choices. He also shares why he believes the key to the future of the steel industry is “lightweight and strong.”

Bloomberg

April 5, 2023

Steelmakers offering lower-carbon steel reinforcing bar (rebar) have a competitive advantage over traditional rebar producers, even if customers are unwilling to pay a premium for it in a price-sensitive market, according to David Stickler, senior managing partner of Global Principal Partners

Fastmarkets

December 14, 2022

Sticking with a business model that’s proven successful over the past three decades, David Stickler and his team at Global Principal Partners (GPP) hope to make their next endeavor with Highbar LLC’s two new rebar minimills another prosperous one.

STEEL MARKET UPDATE

November 7, 2022

In this episode of the Arkansas Inc. Podcast, former Big River Steel CEO David Stickler discusses his background as a steel executive, the steel industry in Arkansas, and the recent U.S. Steel announcement in Osceola.

ARKANSAS INC. PODCAST

May 25, 2022

U.S. Steel Corp. agreed to acquire the remaining stake in Big River Steel for about $774 million to expand into newer and lower-cost operations, taking advantage of a recent 85% rally in the industrial metal.

BLOOMBERG

December 8, 2020

"U.S. Steel has an opportunity to change the direction of its company.” 

– Dave Stickler on U. S. Steel owning 49.9% of Big River with plans to purchase the rest for

[$3 billion] overall.

WALL STREET JOURNAL

FEBRUARY 20, 2020