US Steel Great Lakes Works (Ecorse, Michigan)
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Great Lakes Works, situated along the Detroit River in the communities of Ecorse and River Rouge, Mich., consists of both steelmaking and finishing facilities. Zug Island is home to the mill's ironmaking facilities which includes 3 blast furnaces, raw materials storage and ore docks. Iron produced at Zug Island is transported in hot metal cars via rail to steelmaking facilities at the main plant in Ecorse. Products manufactured at the plant include hot-rolled, cold-rolled and coated sheet steels that are used primarily by customers in the automotive industry.
Great Lakes Works has an annual raw steelmaking capability of approximately 3.8 million net tons.
Production Facilities Three blast furnaces
Two top-blown basic oxygen process(BOP) furnaces
Vacuum degasser
Ladle metallurgy facility
Two continuous slab casters
80" Hot strip mill
80" Pickle line
80" 5-Stand Cold reduction mill
Batch annealing facility
80" Temper mill
72" Electrogalvanizing line
73" Hot-dip galvanizing line
www.uss.com/corp/facilities/great-lakes.asp
Great Lakes Works has an annual raw steelmaking capability of approximately 3.8 million net tons.
Production Facilities Three blast furnaces
Two top-blown basic oxygen process(BOP) furnaces
Vacuum degasser
Ladle metallurgy facility
Two continuous slab casters
80" Hot strip mill
80" Pickle line
80" 5-Stand Cold reduction mill
Batch annealing facility
80" Temper mill
72" Electrogalvanizing line
73" Hot-dip galvanizing line
www.uss.com/corp/facilities/great-lakes.asp
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Steel
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 42°15'2"N 83°7'58"W
- Nicholson Terminal & Dock Co. - Ecorse Terminal 1.3 km
- Windsor Salt - Ojibway Mine 2.2 km
- Detroit Edison River Rouge Power Plant 3.1 km
- Marathon Oil - Detroit Refinery 4.9 km
- Former McLouth Steel Trenton Plant 9 km
- Amherstburg Solar Park 10 km
- Metropolitan Industrial Park 10 km
- Ford Motor Company - Woodhaven Stamping Plant 14 km
- Former McLouth Steel Gibraltar Plant 17 km
- Ford Flat Rock Car Assembly Plant 18 km
- Edward Levy - Plant No. 3 0.5 km
- USS Great Lake Steel 0.9 km
- Praxair 1.4 km
- Mud Island 1.5 km
- Park Haven Marina 2.4 km
- Gil Maure Park 2.8 km
- Morton Industrial Park 3 km
- Turkey Creek Complex 3.1 km
- Fighting Island 3.9 km
- Ojibway 4.3 km
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