Burns Harbor Light-Rolled Products

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Burns Harbor: Built to be America's most efficient, quality engineered steelmaking facility

From its very beginning in 1962, Bethlehem Steel's Burns Harbor Division was planned and built to be the finest integrated steel plant in America. Every phase of the steelmaking process, from raw material handling through finished product, is closely controlled. Quality is built into each operation. The plant layout ensures maximum efficiency; west-to-east material flow eliminates backtracking and minimizes material handling cost.

Superior sheet starts with the best steelmaking

From start to finish, Burns Harbor sets industry standards in steelmaking quality, consistency and chemistry control

To produce finished sheet products with superior internal properties, surface quality and formability, it is essential to start with clean steel with tightly controlled chemistry. The three basic oxygen furnaces at Burns Harbor use a sophisticated, computer-controlled process to convert molten iron into steel. Through controlled processes and testing, steel chemistry is rigidly balanced to meet exact specifications for sheet production.

Computerized ladle treatment and desulfurization produce steel with superior cleanliness, surface quality and formability

Ladle treatments and desulfurization are further examples of the technology being used at Burns Harbor to produce a cleaner steel with improved properties. A desulfurization station removes sulfur from the hot metal, reducing inclusions that impair formability. Computerized ladle metallurgical treatment accurately matches liquid steel chemistry to specific customer requirements.

Continuous casting produces internally clean slabs with excellent surface qualities

Basic oxygen furnaces and the ladle treatment station make quality steel with precise chemistry

Putting the most advanced technology in the hands of the most experienced people

Computer-controlled processing is designed into every stage of steelmaking

Today's steels are highly complex products that are quality engineered for specific end uses.

Advanced computer technology has been integrated into all Burns Harbor operations to assure maximum control and consistency in steel chemistry, dimensional accuracy and surface quality.

Hot-Rolled

Computerized heating control produces superior hot-rolled product with extreme flatness and uniform properties.

Coil and cut lengths
Thickness: .061 min. to .500 inch
Width: 25-1/2 to 74 inches
Pickled and oiled and non-pickled
Mill edge or cut edge
Temper passed and non-temper passed

Drawing quality through high strength

The Burns Harbor 80-inch hot-strip mill is modern and productive, rolling bands with superior properties and consistency over a wide range of applications.

An industry leader in surface quality and gauge control

Each stage of the rolling process is controlled automatically, using sophisticated computer technology to monitor and control sheet thickness to ensure consistency and accuracy in meeting customer specifications.

Cut-to-length sheets are temper passed for extreme flatness

To give customers a higher level of performance, all cut lengths are temper passed, then roller leveled after shearing. This produces a finished sheet with excellent flatness and surface.

Surface finish for improved paintability

Burns Harbor temper rolling imparts a superior finish to coils and cut lengths, for improved surface appearance and paintability.

Technology advancement at Burns Harbor is a continual process

Burns Harbor is continually adding the latest technology to its mill operations to stay on the cutting edge of today's customer needs and provide for the future. Bethlehem continues to invest millions of dollars in the hot mill to further improve sheet dimensional accuracy, physical properties and surface quality. Planned improvements include Hydraulic Automatic Gauge Control, and Laser Feedback Roll Bending.

Wide range of applications

Demand for Burns Harbor hot-rolled products continues to grow as more and more customers discover the superior performance and wide choices available in today's steel. We supply hot-rolled products for many end-use applications, including agricultural equipment, tubing, mower decks, wheel rims, water heaters, electrical panels, metal buildings and automotive parts.

Cold-Rolled

Highly trained people, second-generation computerization and closed-loop control make Burns Harbor a leader in producing cold-rolled sheet to exact customer requirements.

Thickness: .022 to .117 inch
Width: 24-5/8 to 73 inches
CQ to EDDQ
Yield strengths to 100,000 psi

Burns Harbor cold-rolled sheet is an industry leader in flatness, surface quality, controlled chemistry, dimensional accuracy and overall consistency in mechanical properties. The 80-inch tandem mill maintains precise control of thickness and surface quality, using a unique, closed-loop system to automatically adjust the tension and speed of the strip passing through the mill, as well as the gap and force of the mill rolls. This produces cold-rolled sheet with a superior consistency that helps give customers a competitive edge in both performance and cost.

Wide range of sizes and grades

Cold-rolled sheet is available in a wide choice of sizes, strengths and grades for almost every customer need, from the most severe forming applications to 100,000 psi yield strength. We supply cold-rolled products for many end-use applications, including appliances, containers, office furniture, tubing, automotive parts, bicycles and water heaters.

Choice of finishes, including texturized

A selection of surface finishes is also available, including a leather-grained texturized surface ideal for appliances.

Continuous heat treating improves steel surface cleanliness and mechanical properties

Burns Harbor is one of the few steel producers in the USA that incorporates a continuous heat treating line (CHTL) into its process. This produces high-strength and commercial-quality steel with excellent uniformity of mechanical properties, surface cleanliness and predictable formability.

Coated Products

Three world-class coating lines give customers an extensive choice of coated sheet, with outstanding formability, coating thickness consistency and weldability.

Hot-dip galvanized
Galvannealed
Electrogalvanized
Zinc-nickel and organic coatings
Thickness: 0.022 to 0.160 inch
Width: 24 to 72 inches

Serving customers worldwide

The variety of Burns Harbor coated sheet offers customers the right choice for applications in a wide range of yield strengths and grades.

Two hot-dip coating lines produce world-class steel sheet

The 72-inch hot-dip coating lines at Burns Harbor and Lackawanna, N.Y., produce spangle-free galvanized and galvannealed sheet with improved surface quality, paintability, corrosion protection, weldability and formability. Both lines feature integral closed-loop coating mass control systems that represent the latest technology in achieving precise coating weight uniformity and alloy layer control. Hot-dip coated sheet is available with extra-smooth finish on request.

The 72-inch electrogalvanizing line offers a wide range of corrosion-resistant steels for critical surface applications

This line, located in Walbridge, Ohio, produces a full range of corrosion-resistant sheet electroplated on one or both sides, or with a different coating mass on each side as required. The products include EG� sheet and Zinc-Nickel EG� sheet, plus Zinc-Nickel UC� sheet, which adds a composite organic coating as an additional corrosion barrier.

Focused on the customer

In addition to achieving international ISO 9002 and QS 9000 certification, Burns Harbor has earned top quality and service awards from major customers.

A total commitment to customer support

Throughout the Burns Harbor organization, there is a commitment to helping customers solve problems and gain the strongest competitive advantage. This includes technical and manufacturing support, plus working with customers� design and engineering teams.

An experienced sales, customer service and marketing team plays a vital role in maintaining customer perspective

An experienced sales and marketing team maintains regular contact with customers and ensures that all Burns Harbor operations receive direct communications on customer needs and problems. This includes sending production and management teams to customer plants for a firsthand understanding of product requirements. In turn, customers are encouraged to visit Burns Harbor, as well as to attend its steelmaking seminars.

Customer service representatives facilitate communications

Customer service representatives are the frontline communications link between Burns Harbor and the customer, facilitating order processing and follow-up through delivery.

Outside processing helps Burns Harbor meet exact customer specifications

Burns Harbor also uses selected and fully qualified outside processors to satisfy specific customer requirements. These may include mechanical processes such as blanking, slitting, cutting to length, edge trimming and tension leveling. They also encompass hot-dip galvanizing, electrogalvanizing, coil coating with either standard paints or specialized organic coatings, as well as managed terminal storage and other distribution services.

Quality teams are proactive at all levels of operations

Quality teams in place throughout the Burns Harbor operation are made up of production, sales, engineering and customer service personnel. Their primary objective is to make sure all pertinent customer information reaches the shop floor and becomes part of the quality improvement process. Customers also participate in special teams to resolve common issues.

Bethlehem's industry-leading research center has over 200 professionals dedicated to improving steel manufacturing processes and products

Bethlehem maintains one of the industry's most comprehensive research centers where highly trained professionals are dedicated to developing both technology that improves the steel manufacturing process and steel product performance with cost effectiveness for all customers.

Complete technical and application engineering support

Product application engineers work directly with customers to help them match the exact product specification to their manufacturing process for maximum economy and performance.

After delivery, Burns Harbor technical service engineers work with customers to track product performance.

Electronic interface balances customers' needs with steel production

A unique 10-year partnership between Bethlehem and Electronic Data Systems keeps Burns Harbor on the cutting edge of electronic interface with the customer.

Burns Harbor uses JMICS (Joint Material Information Control System) to balance customer forecasted requirements with steel production orders to achieve total reliability in delivering the right product, in the right amount, to the right place, at the right time.

A total commitment to exceeding customer expectations for quality, service and on-time delivery

Burns Harbor's leadership is a result of combining advanced technology with experienced and highly trained people. Throughout the company, the focus is on making the best steel in the world and meeting the needs of each customer.

The result is quality and consistency of product second to none and a total involvement in providing strong customer service and technical support.

Serving Our Customers

We recognize that our customers have choices of materials and steel suppliers. We will be their first choice only by routinely and reliably providing what they need, when they need it and at fair and competitive prices.

Our success depends on their success. Our greatest opportunities will be realized through relationships built on mutual trust, cooperation and understanding of each other�s product and business requirements.

"We have a strong relationship with our customers. We do more than just sell steel at Burns Harbor. We sell the collective resources of 6,000 people."

Environmentally ... Burns Harbor is what a steel plant should be

Bordered on two sides by a national park, Burns Harbor has proved that industry and nature can live in harmony. For example, Burns Harbor is so effective in treating the millions of gallons of water used at the plant each day that boating and fishing thrive in the stream through which the treated water passes on its way back to Lake Michigan. Burns Harbor also protects the air through the use of high-energy wet scrubbers and baghouses and has designed and constructed an innovative solid waste recycling system that significantly reduces landfill disposal.

Burns Harbor is committed to improving and protecting the environment - now, and in the future. It's a commitment without compromise.

Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Burns Harbor Division
P.O. Box 248, Chesterton, IN 46304
1-800-323-3903