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NATURE OF OPERATIONS (Narrative) (Details) | 12 Months Ended |
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Aug. 31, 2020 segments numberOfRerollingMills micro_mill mini_mill | Nov. 05, 2018 mini_mill
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |  |
Number of electric arc furnace mini mills | mini_mill | 7 | 4
Number of electric arc furnace micro mills | micro_mill | 2 |
Number of rerolling mills | numberOfRerollingMills | 2 |
Number of business segments | segments | 2 |

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- Definition Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 18 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e8672-108599 + Details
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