Facilities

The operations of the Sparrows Point Division are located along the Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore, Maryland. The principal products of the Sparrows Point Division are hot rolled and cold rolled sheets, tin mill products, galvanized sheet, Galvalume (tm) sheet and plates for service centers and the container, construction, appliance and other metals markets. Principal facilities include a sintering plant, three coke oven batteries (which are cold idled), a large blast furnace, two basic oxygen furnaces with an annual raw steel production capability of approximately 3.5 million tons, a two strand continuous slab caster with a present annual production capability of approximately 3.5 million tons, a 160-inch sheared plate mill, a 68-inch hot-strip mill, three cold reducing mills (66-inch, 56-inch and 48-inch), continuous and batch annealing facilities, a galvanizing line, two Galvalume (tm) lines, tin mill facilities and a 48-inch hot-dip galvanizing line. Sparrows Point is currently obtaining coke from Structural Products and from various commercial sources. The Division continuously casts essentially 100 percent of its total production volume. The Sparrows Point Division's utilization of raw steel production capability was 104 percent during 1994.