Flat-rolled
Acero Prime
U. S. Steel, along with Feralloy Mexico, S.R.L. de C.V. and Mitsui & Co. (USA), Inc., participates in a joint venture, Acero Prime. U. S. Steel has a 40 percent interest. Acero Prime operates in Mexico with facilities in San Luis Potosí and Ramos Arizpe and a leased warehouse in Toluca. Acero Prime provides Mexico’s automotive and appliance manufacturers with slitting, warehousing and logistical services. Acero Prime’s annual slitting capability is approximately 385,000 tons.
www.aceroprime.com
Baycoat Limited Partnership
U. S. Steel Canada and ArcelorMittal Dofasco, Inc. participate in Baycoat Limited Partnership (Baycoat), a 50-50 joint venture located in Hamilton, Ontario. Baycoat applies a variety of paint finishes to flat-rolled steel coils. Baycoat’s annual production capability is approximately 280,000 tons.
Chrome Deposit Corporation
Chrome Deposit Corporation (CDC), a 50-50 joint venture between U. S. Steel and Court Holdings, reconditions finishing work rolls, which require grinding, chrome plating, and/or texturing. The rolls are used on rolling mills to provide superior finishes on steel sheets. CDC has seven locations across the United States, with all locations near major steel mills.
D.C. Chrome Limited
D.C. Chrome Limited, a 50-50 joint venture between U. S. Steel Canada and The Court Group of Companies Limited, operates a plant in Stony Creek, Ontario, that textures and chromium plates work rolls for Hamilton Works and for other customers and grinds and chromes steel shafts used in manlifts.
www.dcchrome.com
Double Eagle Steel Coating Company
U. S. Steel and Severstal North America, Inc. participate in Double Eagle Steel Coating Company (DESCO), a 50-50 joint venture which operates an electrogalvanizing facility located in Dearborn, Mich. The facility coats sheet steel with free zinc or zinc alloy coatings, primarily for use in the automotive industry, where superior rust and corrosion protection are citical. DESCO processes steel supplied by each partner, and each partner markets the steel it has processed by DESCO. DESCO’s annual production capability is approximately 870,000 tons.
www.descc.com
Double G Coatings Company, L.P.
U. S. Steel and ArcelorMittal participate in the Double G Coatings Company, L.P. 50-50 joint venture (Double G), a hot-dip galvanizing and
GALVALUME® facility located near Jackson, Miss., that primarily serves the construction industry. Double G’s annual production capability is approximately 315,000 tons.
Hibbing Taconite Company
U. S. Steel has a 14.7 percent ownership interest in Hibbing Taconite Company (Hibbing), which is based in Hibbing, Minn. Hibbing’s rated annual production capacity is 9.1 million tons of iron ore pellets, of which our share is about 1.3 million tons, reflecting our ownership interest.
www.cliffsnaturalresources.com/Operations/NAIO/Pages/HibbingTaconite.aspx
PRO-TEC Coating Company
U. S. Steel and Kobe Steel, Ltd. of Japan participate in a 50-50 joint venture, PRO-TEC Coating Company (PRO-TEC). PRO-TEC owns and operates two hot-dip galvanizing lines in Leipsic, Ohio, that primarily serve the quality-critical automotive, appliance and construction industries. PRO-TEC’s annual production capability is approximately 1.2 million tons. U. S. Steel supplies PRO-TEC with all of its requirements of cold-rolled sheets and markets all of its products.
www.proteccoating.com
Tilden Mining Company
U. S. Steel has a 15 percent ownership interest in Tilden Mining Company (Tilden), which is based in Ishpeming, Mich. Tilden’s rated annual production capacity is 8.7 million tons of iron ore pellets, of which our share is about 1.3 million tons reflecting our ownership interest.
www.cliffsnaturalresources.com/Operations/NAIO/Pages/EmpireandTildenMines.aspx
USS-POSCO Industries
U. S. Steel and Pohang Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. (POSCO) of South Korea participate in a 50-50 joint venture, USS-POSCO Industries (USS-POSCO), located in Pittsburg, Calif. The joint venture markets high-quality sheet and tin mill products, principally in the western United States. USS-POSCO produces cold-rolled sheets, galvanized sheets, tin plate and tin-free steel from hot bands principally provided by U. S. Steel and POSCO, which each provide about 50 percent of its requirements. USS-POSCO’s annual production capability is approximately 1.5 million tons.
www.ussposco.com
Worthington Specialty Processing
U. S. Steel and Worthington Industries, Inc. participate in Worthington Specialty
Processing (Worthington), a steel processing
joint venture with facilities in Canton, Jackson and Taylor, Mich. The three facilities, which
serve flat-rolled products customers including those in the automotive
industry, are operated by Worthington Industries, which serves as the managing
partner in the 51-49 joint venture. The Jackson facility is capable of processing master steel coils into both slit coils and
sheared first operation blanks including rectangles, trapezoids, parallelograms
and chevrons. The Canton
facility slits, cuts-to-length and presses blanks from steel coils to desired
specifications, provides laser welding services, and warehouses material for
customers. At the Taylor facility, steel coils can be slit, cut-to-length and tension leveled.
www.worthingtonindustries.com
Tubular
Apolo
U. S. Steel has a 50 percent ownership interest in Apolo Tubulars S.A. (Apolo), a Brazilian supplier of welded casing, tubing, line pipe and other tubular products.
United Spiral Pipe LLC
In April 2007, U. S. Steel, POSCO and SeAH Steel Corporation, a Korean manufacturer of tubular products, formed United Spiral Pipe LLC to design, engineer and construct a manufacturing facility in Pittsburgh, Calif., with annual production capability of 300,000 tons of spiral welded tubular products. A groundbreaking ceremony for the facility was held in April 2008 and it is expected to come on line in May 2009.
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