About Arcelormittal Burns Harbor

Burns Harbor
About ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor

ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor, the company’s second largest U.S. facility, is a fully integrated steelmaking facility located on Lake Michigan
in Northwest Indiana, 50 miles southeast of Chicago. The location allows for prime shipping with excellent access to the Great Lakes,
railroads and highways, for both inbound requirements and outbound shipments. It is the only steelmaking facility in the U.S. that is
bordered on two sides by a national park. Burns Harbor primarily serves the automotive industry. Other key markets include appliance,
construction, energy, line pipe, machinery, railcar, service centers and shipbuilding. Principal products made at this location are hot-rolled,
cold-rolled and coated sheet products and carbon and alloy heat treated plate.
Burns Harbor
Plant leadership John Mengel, vice president & general manager, ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor
Union representation Pete Trinidad, president, USW Local 6787
Employees Light flat rolled: 3,268 Plate: 614
Acreage 1,986
Steelmaking capacity About 5 million tons
Site founded 1964: commenced operations
Products Hot-rolled sheet, cold-rolled sheet, coated products, carbon and alloy heat
treated plate
Markets served A
ppliance, automotive, construction, converters, distribution, energy, heavy
equipment, infrastructure, military, pipe and tube, railcar, shipbuilding, transportation
Principal production Coke plant operations, iron producing, steel producing, hot rolling, finishing and
facilities plate rolling and heat treating
Certifications merican Bureau of Shipping Certificate, American Petroleum Institute Certificate,
A
Bureau Veritas Agreement, ISO 9001 Certificate, ISO 14001 Certificate, ISO 17025
A2LA Accredited Certificate and Scope, ISO TS 16949 Certificate, Lloyd’s Register
Certificate, OHSAS 18001 Certificate, PED Certificate, DNV-GL Certificate
About ArcelorMittal
ArcelorMittal is the world’s largest steel and mining company. In 2017, ArcelorMittal globally had sales of $68.7 billion, steel shipments of
85.2 million net tons and crude steel production of 93.1 million net tons. ArcelorMittal employs nearly 200,000 people and has steelmaking
operations in 18 countries on four continents.
In the United States, ArcelorMittal employs more than 18,000 at over 20 operations, with an additional 1,200 employees in research and
development, corporate offices and sales centers. In 2017, ArcelorMittal USA produced approximately 15 million net tons of raw steel used
to create flat, long, tubular and tailored blank steel products serving the automotive, construction, pipe and tube, appliance, container and
machinery markets.
Burns Harbor Facilities
Coke plant operations • Two, 82-oven batteries (6 m) 2017 Burns Harbor light flat
rolled prime shipments
Iron producing • Two blast furnaces (2645 m3 and 2600 m3 working volume)
• “C” Hearth Diameter 38 feet (11.2 meters); relined Q2-2007
• “D” Hearth Diameter 35 feet (10.8 meters); relined Q4-2008/Q3-2010
• “C” G2 staves in bosh w/high density cooling plate-type stack
• “D” G2 staves in bosh w/standard cooling plate-type and external spray stack Automotive SSC/Conversion
• Sinter plant
Steel producing • Three basic oxygen furnaces

• Three hot metal ladle/desulfurization stations
Other Pipe &
• Two ladle treatment and ladle reheat stations OEM Tube
• One vacuum degassing unit
• Two, 2-strand continuous casters (#1 Curved: 36-76”, #2 Straight: 38-86”)
- #1 Curved: 914 mm-1930 mm, #2 Straight: 965 mm – 2184 mm)
2017 Burns Harbor light flat
rolled product mix
80” hot strip mill • Three pusher-type reheat furnaces with extractors
• Five roughing mills, four vertical edgers, seven finishing stands Exposed Unexposed
• Three coilers
• Skin pass temper mill
Finishing operations • Two continuous 80” pickle lines

• 80” five-stand tandem cold reduction mill
• Batch anneal (HNx)
• Continuous anneal line (60” max) (1524 mm) Hot rolled Cold rolled
• 80” temper mill
• 80” hot-dipped coating line
- Galvanneal furnace
- In-line temper mill and tension leveler
Plate operations 160” plate mill CR substrate Coated

• Two continuous pusher furnaces and three batch furnaces
• Two-high roughing mill and a four-high finishing mill
• Accelerated cooling unit — two ACCtec modules and soft cooling 2017 Burns Harbor
• 4,000-ton leveler, two side trimming lines and end shears plate shipments
• Roller hearth hardening and tempering furnace, high pressure roller quench,
8,200-ton leveler, grit blaster and primer capability
• Flame cut facility to burn thick plate to size and heavy plate
normalizing furnace
110” plate mill
• Two walking beam furnaces
• Two-high roughing mill and four-high finishing mill
• 1,500-ton leveler
Gary heat treat and rolling facilities – Gary, Indiana
• Walking beam normalizing furnace
• Roller hearth hardening and tempering furnaces with a platen quench
• Shearing and shipping facility
Service Centers Line Pipe
Railcar Oil & Gas
Construction Shipbuilding
Machinery
2018/6
Sustainability and corporate responsibility highlights
Our sustainability and corporate responsibility approach is driven by 10 sustainability
outcomes that we believe are essential not only for the long-term future of our business Corporate
and our ability to deliver value for all stakeholders, but also for the role that steel has to
play in creating high-quality, sustainable lifestyles for people all over the world. Highlights
of five of these 10 outcomes, of which ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor plays an important
Responsibility
role, include: ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor’s corporate
responsibility efforts are led by a
• Safe, healthy, quality working lives for all of our people: The lost time injury (LTI)
frequency rate in the U.S. in 2017 was .95 per million worker hours, a 23 percent Council for Stronger Communities
improvement over 2016 and our best on record. (CSC). Comprised of diverse leadership
• Efficient use of resources and high recycling rates: 37 percent of each ton of steel from the facility, the CSC implements
produced at ArcelorMittal USA is from recycled scrap steel. global, national and local initiatives
• Responsible energy user that helps create a lower carbon future: and builds sustainable stakeholder
36 energy projects resulted in $17 million in energy savings, the equivalent of powering partnerships.
12,400 homes for a year.
• Trusted user of air, land and water: Recognizing the importance of water within our Major community
business, we are a leader and the sole corporate funder of Sustain Our Great Lakes, a investment partners at
public-private partnership to protect fish, wildlife and habitat throughout the Great
Lakes Basin. The program has made $144 million in conservation investments in the Burns Harbor include:
region since 2006. • American Heart Association
• Active and welcomed member of the community: Since 2008, ArcelorMittal USA • Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater
and its employees have invested over $70 million in nonprofit organizations across the Northwest Indiana
United States. Our signature grantmaking initiative is investing in science, technology, • Duneland YMCA
engineering and math (STEM) programs at the local and national level.
• Field Museum of Natural History
• Friendship Botanic Gardens
An example of sustainability at ArcelorMittal Burns Harbor • Frontline Foundations
As part of our focus on conservation, restoration and environmental education, • Gabis Arboretum at Purdue Northwest
ArcelorMittal partners with several non-profit organizations. One such partnership is a • Indiana Dunes Environmental
collaborative initiative involving the Dunes Learning Center, Field Museum, Shirley Heinze Learning Center
Land Trust and Gabis Arboretum, to bring the Mighty Acorns environmental education • Michigan City Safe Harbor
program to hundreds of elementary school students from across the Calumet Region. First Robotics
As part of this special program, students participate in the Mighty Acorns Nature Camp,
where they spend a day each summer at the Burns Harbor facility’s Deerfield Woods • Portage Township Schools
Training Center. A fun-filled day is on tap, where the young campers explore nature trails, • Porter County Wildlife Management
participate in hands-on science activities and learn the importance of land stewardship. Advisory Board
• Science Olympiad
• Shirley Heinze Land Trust
• Wildlife Habitat Council
2018/6

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Steel producing • Three basic oxygen furnaces

Finishing operations • Two continuous 80” pickle lines

Plate operations 160” plate mill CR substrate Coated

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