Bethlehem's Businesses

Burns Harbor Division
Location – Burns Harbor, Indiana (includes the Galvanized Products Division and Lackawanna Coke Division, Lackawanna, New York). Annual raw steelmaking capacity – 5.6 million tons. Number of employees: Burns Harbor – 6,000; Lackawanna – 860.

Burns Harbor also participates in: Walbridge Coatings, a joint venture in Walbridge, Ohio, which operates an electrogalvanizing line; two joint ventures in Northern Indiana, Chicago Cold Rolling, L.L.C., which processes hot rolled sheet into light gauge cold rolled sheet products, and Indiana Pickling and Processing Company, which operates a pickling line; and a joint venture in Michigan, TWB Company, which produces laser-welded blanks for the automotive industry.

Products – Hot rolled, cold rolled, electrogalvanized, hot dip galvanized and galvannealed sheet, carbon and alloy plates, coke.

Markets – Automotive, office furniture, home appliance, container, service centers, industrial machinery, farm equipment, construction, construction equipment, railroad cars, pipe and tube, pipeline, shipbuilding.

Sparrows Point Division
Location – Sparrows Point, Maryland. Annual raw steelmaking capacity – 3.7 million tons. Number of employees – 5,200.

Sparrows Point also participates in a joint venture in Jackson, Mississippi, Double G Coatings Company, L.P., which operates a hot dip galvanizing/Galvalume� line, and in a joint venture in Orlando, Florida, Steel Construction Systems, which supplies residential and commercial construction products.

Products – Hot rolled, cold rolled, hot dip galvanized and Galvalume� sheet, tin mill products, plates.

Markets – Construction, metal building and roofing, container, service centers, automotive, heating/air conditioning, machinery, shipbuilding, oil and gas pipeline, tubing.

Pennsylvania Steel Technologies, Inc.
Location – Steelton, Pennsylvania. Annual raw steelmaking capacity – 1.2 million tons. Number of employees – 1,400.Products – Head-hardened rails, standard rails, forging blooms, rerolling blooms, billets, flat bars, special sections, large-diameter pipe.

Markets – Rail transportation, machinery, forging, special-quality bar mills, oil and gas transmission.

Other Operations
Transportation: Five shortline railroads serving Bethlehem’s operations and other facilities; two 1,000 foot vessels, one owned and one under long-term charter, transporting raw materials on the Great Lakes; and a trucking company serving Bethlehem's operations and other facilities.

Iron Ore: Two operations in which Bethlehem has partial interests – one in Minnesota and one in Brazil.

Bethlehem’s Segments
For financial reporting purposes, Bethlehem reports the results of its operations and certain other financial information in two segments: Basic Steel Operations and Steel Related Operations. Financial information for these segments is included in Note B to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

Products and services of the Basic Steel Operations segment include a wide variety of steel mill products described on this page; raw materials, such as iron ore, which are used in Bethlehem’s steelmaking operations and sold to trade customers; and railroad and Great Lakes shipping operations, which are used primarily in Bethlehem’s steelmaking operations.

The Steel Related Operations segment manufactured and fabricated various iron and steel products for the metals, electric power generation and nuclear industries through BethForge, Inc. and CENTEC Roll Corporation. BethShip, Inc., which was also part of Steel Related Operations, repaired vessels and manufactured industrial products. As previously announced, all of these operations were sold in 1997.

The products and services of the Basic Steel Operations and Steel Related Operations segments were distributed through Bethlehem’s own sales organizations, which have sales offices at various locations in the United States and Mexico, and through foreign sales agents. Export sales were 2% of total sales in 1997, 3% in 1996 and 5% in 1995.

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