Steel

LTV Steel Company, Inc.
LTV Steel is the nation's third largest integrated steel producer and the second largest producer of flat rolled steel in the United States. The Company is a leading supplier of quality-critical flat rolled steel products used by automotive, appliance and electrical equipment manufacturers, and is an acknowledged leader in quality and service.

Principal products include hot rolled, cold rolled and coated steel sheets, including tin-plated steel. LTV operates two integrated steel mills (Cleveland Works and Indiana Harbor Works), and various finishing and processing facilities.

Leading Steel Technologies

Trico Steel Company
Trico Steel Company began production at its new flat rolled steel plant in Decatur, Alabama, in April 1997. At full capacity the plant can produce up to 2.2 million tons of hot rolled steel products annually in widths up to 65 inches and gauges as thin as one millimeter. The new ultralight gauge hot rolled steel will compete with certain grades of cold rolled steel.

LTV owns a 50% interest in Trico Steel and two of the world's leading steel companies – Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. and Corus Group plc (formerly British Steel plc) – each owns a 25% interest.

Metal Fabrication

LTV Copperweld
LTV Copperweld is North America's largest manufactuer of steel tubing and the world's largest producer of bimetallic wire for the telecommunications and utilities industries. LTV Copperweld also is the largest producer of structural steel tubing in North America with 23 plants and 3,500 people, the company produces over 1.5 million tons of tubular products annually.

LTV Copperweld was created in 1999 following LTV's acquisition of the Copperweld Corporation, Copperweld Canada Inc. and the Welded Tube Co. of America. These new units were combined with LTV's exisitng tubular products operations.

VP Buildings, Inc.
VP Buildings, Inc. is the nation's second largest manufacturer of pre-engineered metal buildings for low-rise commercial and industrial applications. VP also manufactures steel roofing and other building components. VP Buildings has a growing presence in the international construction market.