Newly formed Mittal Steel USA has settled on names for its locations across the United States.

Formed on April 15 by combining operations of the former Ispat Inland Inc. and International Steel Group, Mittal Steel USA is part of Mittal Steel Co., based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Mittal Steel USA, which is now (following the acquisition of ISG) the largest steelmaker in North America, consists of the following facilities.

Illinois — Mittal Steel USA—Hennepin is a finishing plant along the Illinois River in north central Illinois. The facility can produce 1.5 million tons of cold-rolled and coated products for capital equipment, appliance, automotive, and other markets. River barges take Hennepin products throughout the central United States and to major growth markets in the south.

Based in downtown Chicago, Mittal Steel North America markets bar products from U.S. and other Mittal Steel operations throughout North America.

Located south of Chicago, Mittal Steel USA—Riverdale produces high-carbon and alloy steels, using a compact strip production facility comprising a ladle metallurgy facility and continuous thin slab caster/hot strip mill complex. The plant can produce 750,000 tons annually, from molten iron shipped in from the company's integrated plants nearby in Northwest Indiana.

Indiana — Mittal Steel USA—Burns Harbor, a one-time flagship of Bethlehem Steel Corp., is the newest integrated steel plant in the United States, completed in 1964 within a tract of 3,300 acres among the sand dunes of Burns Harbor, Ind.. The plant is capable of producing 4.7 million tons of flat-rolled sheet.

Mittal Steel USA—Burns Harbor Plate is based on the same tract as the sheet operations are two plate mills capable of producing 1 million tons annually for a variety of plate customers. This unit also includes heat-treating operations in nearby Gary, Ind.

Mittal Steel USA—Indiana Harbor combines the East Chicago, Ind., integrated steel production facilities of the former Ispat Inland and ISG plants into the nation's largest steelmaking location. The properties of the two former plants are separated only by the Indiana Harbor Canal, where raw materials arrive and from which some finished products leave via the Great Lakes and inland waterways. The plant covers 3,100 acres and has the capacity to produce about 10 million tons of flat-rolled sheet annually.

Situated within the Indiana Harbor complex, Mittal Steel USA—Indiana Harbor Bar Products is an electric furnace-based operation that can produce 800,000 tons annually of special quality bars and alloy bars used mostly in transportation industries.

Maryland — Mittal Steel USA—Sparrows Point is the only fully integrated steel plant in the United States with direct ocean access. Its 3,100 acres lie along Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore, Md.. The plant has capacity for 3.9 million tons annually, producing hot- and cold-rolled sheets, with coatings of zinc, aluminum or tin.

Minnesota — Mittal Steel USA—Minorca Mine is an iron ore mine in Virginia, Minn., that can produce 2.8 million tons of fluxed taconite pellets each year for smelting in the company's blast furnaces. The mine is northwest of Duluth, and transports its output via the Great Lakes.

New York — Located on Lake Erie in Lackawanna, N.Y., (near Buffalo), Mittal Steel USA—Lackawanna is a finishing and coating operation for sheet steel, capable of processing 700,000 tons annually. The 150-acre site has access to the Port of Buffalo, a gateway to the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Welland Canal and the Great Lakes.

North Carolina — Mittal Steel USA—Newton provides manufacturers with a wide range of plate-burning capabilities. Its state-of-the-art plasma arc equipment can cut plate up to two inches thick, 100 inches wide and 480 inches long, producing products with precision and speed that are smooth and burr free, and without heat distortion.

Ohio — Mittal Steel USA—Cleveland comprises integrated steelmaking operations straddling the Cuyahoga River that can produce 3.8 million tons of hot- and cold-rolled sheet annually for automotive, appliance, service center, construction and converter markets. The plant covers more than 950 acres of land.

Situated on 88 acres in Columbus, the Mittal Steel USA—Columbus finishing plant includes a hot-dip galvanizing line capable of coating 40,000 tons of flat-rolled sheet monthly and a slitter that can process 15,000 tons a month.

Mittal Steel USA—Warren comprises coke batteries in Warren, Ohio, that produce coke for the ironmaking process, primarily in Cleveland. The plant can make 550,000 tons annually of the material, a form of baked coal that is the primary source of energy in blast furnaces.

Pennsylvania — Located 40 miles west of Philadelphia, Mittal Steel USA—Coatesville produces plate products from scrap in an electric furnace. Capacity is about 900,000 tons annually at the 970-acre plant.

Located on the Schuylkill River near Philadelphia, Mittal Steel USA—Conshohocken can produce 500,000 tons annually for a number of markets, and is the largest supplier of armored plate to the U.S. military. Located south of Harrisburg, Mittal Steel USA—Steelton is capable of producing 1 million tons of steel annually, which it forms into railroad rails, specialty blooms and flat bars. The plant's electric furnace and associated equipment lie on a 380-acre site.

South Carolina — Using scrap and an electric furnace, Mittal Steel USA—Georgetown can produce 1 million tons of steel and 750,000 tons of wire rod annually. The 60-acre plant is on a deepwater seaport along the Sampit River in Georgetown, S.C.

West Virginia — Located on 640 acres along the Ohio River in Weirton, W. Va., Mittal Steel USA—Weirton can make 3 million tons of steel annually via integrated steelmaking technology. The plant's hot- and cold-rolled, galvanized and tin-plated products are used in containers, construction, service centers and automotive and tubular markets.

Trinidad and Tobago — Located in the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, Mittal Steel USA—Trinidad produces hot briquetted iron (HBI), a high-quality scrap substitute. The plant is near abundant, low-cost natural gas, which is used to reduce iron ore fines into an economical alternative to scrap that can be used in both electric furnaces and integrated steelmaking. Annual capacity is about 550,000 tons.

Joint Ventures — Mittal Steel USA also is a partner in a number of ventures, whose names aren't changing, with other companies, including:

• AK-ISG Steel Coating Co., an electrogalvanizing operation in Cleveland, Ohio.
• Double G Coatings Co., a producer of hot-dip galvanized and Galvalume sheet in Jackson, Miss.
• Hibbing Taconite Co., an iron ore pellet producer near Hibbing and Chisholm, Minn.
• I/N Tek, a continuous cold-rolling mill in New Carlisle, Ind.
• I/N Kote, a galvanizing plant adjacent to I/N Tek, with both hot-dip and electrogalvanizing lines.
• Indiana Pickling and Processing Co., a company that cleans the surface of steel with hydrochloric acid solution, situated at the Port of Indiana, Portage, Ind.
• Steel Construction Systems, a manufacturer of metal lath products, light-gauge steel framing components and light-gauge steel truss systems for the construction industry, in Orlando, Fla.

Mittal Steel Co. is the world's most global steel company. Formed from the combination of Ispat International N.V. and LNM Holdings NV, the company has operations in 14 countries, on four continents. Mittal Steel encompasses all aspects of modern steelmaking, to produce a comprehensive portfolio of both flat and long steel products to meet a wide range of customer needs. It serves most of the major steel consuming sectors, including automotive, appliance, machinery and construction.