Mittal Steel Names U.S. Operations

Mittal Steel USA, formed last month by combining Ispat Inland Inc. and International Steel Group, has settled upon names for its locations in the U.S. The company is part of Mittal Steel Co.

The names and descriptions of Mittal Steel USA's operations are the following:

·          Illinois -- Mittal Steel USA -- Hennepin -- This finishing plant along the Illinois River in north central Illinois can produce 1.5 million tons of cold-rolled and coated products for capital equipment, appliance, automotive, and other markets; Mittal Steel North America – This group markets bar products from U.S. and other Mittal Steel operations throughout North America; Mittal Steel USA -- Riverdale -- This plant south of Chicago produces high-carbon and alloy steels, using a compact strip production facility -- consisting of a ladle metallurgy facility and continuous thin slab caster/hot strip mill complex. The plant can produce 750,000 tons annually, from molten iron shipped in from the company's integrated plants nearby in Northwest Indiana.

·          Indiana - Mittal Steel USA -- Burns Harbor, Mittal Steel USA -- Burns Harbor Plate -- Based on the same tract as the sheet operations are two plate mills capable of producing 1 million tons annually for a variety of plate customers; Mittal Steel USA -- Indiana Harbor -- The company is combining two large integrated steel plants into the nation's largest steelmaking location, in East Chicago, Ind. The plant covers 3,100 acres and has the capacity

     to produce about 10 million tons of flat-rolled sheet annually; Mittal Steel USA -- Indiana Harbor Bar Products -- This electric furnace-based operation can produce 800,000 tons annually of special quality bars and alloy bars used mostly in transportation industries.

·            Maryland - Mittal Steel USA -- Sparrows Point -- This is the only fully integrated steel plant in the United States with direct ocean access. The plant has capacity for 3.9 million tons annually, producing hot- and cold-rolled sheets, with coatings of zinc, aluminum or tin.

·            Minnesota - Mittal Steel USA -- Minorca Mine -- This iron ore mine in Virginia, Minn., can produce 2.8 million tons of fluxed taconite pellets each year for smelting in the company's blast furnaces.

·          New York - Mittal Steel USA -- Lackawanna -- This plant on Lake Erie in Lackawanna, N.Y., near Buffalo, is a finishing and coating operation for sheet steel, capable of processing 700,000 tons annually.

·          North Carolina - Mittal Steel USA -- Newton -- This plant in Newton, N.C. provides manufacturers with a wide range of plate-burning capabilities.

·          Ohio - Mittal Steel USA -- Cleveland -- Integrated steelmaking operations straddling the Cuyahoga River can produce 3.8 million tons of hot- and cold-rolled sheet annually for automotive, appliance, service center, construction and converter markets; Mittal Steel USA – Columbus; Mittal Steel USA -- Warren -- Batteries in Warren, Ohio, produce coke  that is used in the ironmaking process, primarily in Cleveland. The plant can make 550,000 tons annually of the material.

·            Pennsylvania - Mittal Steel USA -- Coatesville -- This plant produces plate products from scrap in an electric furnace. Capacity is about 900,000 tons annually at the 970-acre plant; Mittal Steel USA -- Conshohocken -- This 70-acre plant can produce 500,000 tons annually; Mittal Steel USA -- Steelton -- The plant is capable of producing 1 million tons of steel annually.

·          South Carolina - Mittal Steel USA -- Georgetown -- Using scrap and an electric furnace, the plant can produce 1 million tons of steel and 750,000 tons of wire rod annually. 

·          West Virginia - Mittal Steel USA -- Weirton -- This integrated steelmaking plant can make 3 million tons of steel annually.

·          Trinidad and Tobago - Mittal Steel USA -- Trinidad -- This plant in Trinidad and Tobago is a producer of hot briquetted iron (HBI), a high-quality scrap substitute.

·          Joint Ventures - Mittal Steel USA also is a partner in these ventures, whose names aren't changing, with other companies:

AK-ISG Steel Coating Co. -- An electrogalvanizing operation in Cleveland.

Double G Coatings Co. -- A producer of hot-dip galvanized and Galvalume sheet in Jackson, Miss.

 Hibbing Taconite Co. -- An iron ore pellet producer near Hibbing and Chisholm, Minn.

I/N Tek -- A continuous cold-rolling mill in New Carlisle, Ind.

I/N Kote -- A galvanizing plant adjacent to I/N Tek, with both hot-dip and electrogalvanizing lines.

Indiana Pickling and Processing Co. -- A company that cleans the surface of steel with hydrochloric acid solution, situated at the Port of Indiana, Portage, Ind..

Steel Construction Systems -- A manufacturer of metal lath products, light-gauge steel framing components and light-gauge steel truss systems for the construction industry, in Orlando, Fla..