Ryerson Inc., a metals processor and distributor, has announced that it will expand its Atlanta-area operations to the Blue Ridge Industrial Park in Duluth.

Ryerson will move into the old O’Neal Steel building on North Berkeley Lake Road. The facility is part of a nearly 50-acre industrial park that Duluth annexed into the city earlier this year.

The expansion, which should be completed in the first quarter of 2012, will create about 25 new jobs over the next years and add 147,000-square feet of warehouse space to Ryerson’s operations.