U.S. Steel Granite City Works

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Granite City Works is a leading supplier of high-quality hot- rolled, cold-rolled and coated sheet steel products to customers in the construction, container, piping and tubing, service center, and automotive industries.

Granite City Works has an annual raw steelmaking capability of 2.8 million net tons.
Production Facilities Two coke batteries – approximate annual production capability of 500,000 tons
Two blast furnaces
Two top-blown basic oxygen process(BOP) vessels
Ladle metallurgy facility
Two continuous slab casters
80" Hot strip mill
51" Pickle Line
56" 4-Stand cold reduction mill
46" Hot-dip galvanizing line
49" Hot-dip galvanizing/GALVALUME® line
Barge dock on Mississippi Rive

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Coordinates:   38°41'30"N   90°7'52"W

Comments

  • Those are flare stacks, one for the coke oven gas and the blue one for furnace gas.
  • The plant was owned by Granite City Steel until National Steel bought it in 1971. In 2003, National Steel sold the site to U.S. Steel as part of National Steel's bankruptcy procedure.
  • If it wasn't for the mill you would be living somewhere eles.
This article was last modified 12 years ago