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Cleveland Works
LTV Steel's Cleveland Works produces a variety of flat rolled steel products
in the heart of Cleveland's industrial river valley, just a few miles
south of Lake Erie.
One of the largest flat rolled plants in North America, Cleveland Works accounts for 57% of LTV Steel's raw steel production capacity.
Major facilities include blast furnaces, basic oxygen furnaces, continuous slab casters, ladle metallurgy/vacuum degassing facilities, hot strip mills, cold reducing mills, sheet finishing mills, a continuous annealing line, two batch anneal shops, and a joint venture electrogalvanizing line.
The plant has the capacity to produce five 
million tons of raw steel annually.
Among its products are hot rolled sheet, carbon and high-strength, processed
and unprocessed, and alloy sheet; cold rolled sheet, carbon and high-strength,
enameling sheet, electrical (motor lamination) sheet, and tension leveled
and continuously annealed cold rolled products; and electrogalvanized
sheet. Cleveland Works is ISO9002 and QS-9000 certified.
Indiana Harbor Works
The Indiana Harbor Works (IHW) steel complex, 20 miles southeast of Chicago,
produces 3.7 million tons or about 43% of LTV Steel's raw steel production.
Among its products are hot rolled sheet, carbon and high-strength, processed
and unprocessed; 
cold rolled sheet, carbon and high
strength, enameling sheet, annealed cold rolled; and hot-dip galvanized
and galvanneal coated products.
The flat rolled complex serves the needs of the automotive, agriculture, appliance, pipemaking, and service center markets.
Major facilities include a sinter plant, blast furnaces, basic oxygen furnaces, vacuum decarburization and ladle reheating systems, continuous slab casters, a hot strip mill, cold reducing mill, sheet finishing mill, and hot-dip galvanizing lines.
Indiana Harbor Works is ISO9002, and QS-9000 certified, and has received numerous supplier awards from a host of customers for its entire line of high-quality flat rolled steel products.
Hennepin Plant
LTV Steel's Hennepin Plant is one of the world's most modern steel finishing
facilities. Located in rural Illinois, the plant has the capability to
ship more than 1.4 million tons of cold rolled and galvanized products
to its customers each year.
Hot rolled steel from LTV Steel's Indiana Harbor and Cleveland Works
is received at Hennepin, and 
processed into products to be used
by the major home appliance, electrical motor, agricultural equipment,
steel building, and automotive industries.
The Hennepin Plant is known in the industry for its extensive quality control procedures. A major fiber optic communications network provides the base for plantwide communications and data exchange.
Numerous other enhancements have been completed, which improve uniformity of galvanized and galvanneal coating, and provide the ability to test the steels for drawability, uniformity of thickness, and coating chemical analysis.
The Hennepin facility has received the Ford Q1 Supplier Award and has been recognized with supplier awards from various flat rolled customers. Hennepin is ISO9002 and QS-9000 certified.
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