Bethlehem Steel Corporation is the second largest integrated steel producer in the United States, with an annual raw steel production capacity of 11.5 million tons. Bethlehem employs about 17,000 people in plants located on the east coast and in the midwest. Today Bethlehem’s basic steel operations include four main business units:

• Burns Harbor Division (including Lackawanna  Coke and Galvanized Products Divisions) (BH)
• Sparrows Point Division (SP)
• Bethlehem Lukens Plate (BLP)
• Pennsylvania Steel Technologies, Inc. (PST)

These business units produce a wide variety of steel mill products including hot rolled, cold rolled and coated sheets and strip, plates, tin mill products, specialty blooms, flat bars, rail and large-diameter pipe.

Bethlehem Lukens Plate was formed in the spring of 1998 with Bethlehem’s acquisition of Lukens Inc. BLP brings together plate production facilities at the former Lukens’ Coatesville and Conshohocken, Pa., plants, two plate mills at the Burns Harbor Division, and a plate mill at Sparrows Point. Other Lukens assets are being divested. The acquisition of Lukens added about one million tons of raw steel production capacity to Bethlehem Steel’s capacity.

Also included in Basic Steel Operations are iron ore operations, subsidiary railroad and trucking operations, and lake shipping operations. Bethlehem also participates in several joint ventures for flat-rolled products.

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