Bethlehem Steel Corporation is the second largest integrated steel producer in the United States, with an annual raw steel production capacity of 10.5 million tons. Bethlehem employs about 16,000 people in plants located on the east coast and in the midwest. Its basic steel operations include three core steel business divisions:
- Burns Harbor Division (including Lackawanna Coke and Galvanized Products Divisions) (BH)
- Sparrows Point Division (SP)
- Pennsylvania Steel Technologies, Inc. (PST)
These business divisions produce a wide variety of steel mill products including hot-rolled, cold-rolled and coated sheets and strip, plates, tin mill products, specialty blooms, billets, flat bars, rail, large-diameter pipe and coke.
Also included in basic steel operations are iron ore operations, which provide raw materials to Bethlehem's steelmaking facilities or sell such materials to trade customers; subsidiary railroad and trucking operations, which primarily transport raw materials and semi-finished steel products within various Bethlehem operations; lake shipping operations, which primarily transport raw materials to the Burns Harbor Division; and the Coke Ovens Division in Bethlehem, Pa., which supplies coke to Burns Harbor, Sparrows Point and trade customers.
Bethlehem also participates in several joint ventures for flat-rolled products. Steel-related operations that have been sold include BethForge, Inc., CENTEC Roll Corporation and BethShip, Inc. BethForge and CENTEC manufacture and fabricate various iron and steel products for the metals, electric power generation and machinery industries. BethShip repairs marine vessels and manufactures industrial products.
Safety, Health and Environment Department
1170 Eighth Avenue, Martin Tower, 12th Floor, Bethlehem, PA 18016-7699.
For further information, send mail to [email protected]
1996 Environmental Report Table of Contents
