About this Location

Butler Works is located in western Pennsylvania, a one-hour drive north of Pittsburgh. The facility produces stainless and electrical carbon steel. Melting takes place in an electric arc furnace (EAF) that feeds an argon-oxygen decarburization unit for specialty steels. A ladle metallurgy furnace feeds two double-strand continuous casters. The buildings housing electrical-and-stainless-steel melting and casting, hot-roll, cold-roll and finishing operations measure 3.5 million square feet.

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Production Facilities
  • 230-ton electric arc furnace
  • World's largest Argon-Oxygen Decarburization (AOD) unit, 175-ton capacity
  • Twin station ladle metallurgy furnace
  • Two double-strand continuous casters
  • Slab reheat furnaces and slab conditioning facilities
  • Five-stand hot-rolling mill
  • Anneal and pickle lines
  • Electric box annealing furnaces
  • Two tandem cold-rolling mills
  • CARLITE®/scrubber lines
  • Decarburization lines
  • Slitting lines
  • Packaging line
  • Weld and trim units
Products

Butler Works is a leading producer of flat-rolled electrical and stainless steels and a supplier of stainless and carbon semi-finished slabs.

  • TRAN-COR® is the only high-permeability electrical steel made in the United States, used in power transformers.
  • Regular Grain-Oriented (RGO) products are used for power and distribution transformers. Cleveland-Cliffs is the only producer of this in the United States.
  • Cold Rolled Non-Oriented (CRNO) grades are used primarily in electric motors, generators, and lighting ballasts. Ferritic (Chrome) grades are used in applications that need to withstand extreme heat and corrosive conditions.
  • Chrome Austenitic (Nickel) grades of stainless steel are designed for applications that demand extraordinary strength, durability, and corrosion resistance.
  • Carbon Slabs are produced on one of the two dual-strand casters. Butler Works can produce ultra-low sulfur steel, which is beneficial for many carbon steel applications, including Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS). These slabs are then finished at Cleveland-Cliffs' other manufacturing plants.
Markets Served
  • Power and distribution transformers
  • Stainless and carbon converters
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Quality

Butler Works has earned IATF 16949 and IS09001 certification. The plant is a recipient of several quality awards, including a "Best Operational Improvements" award from American Metal Market, a leading metal industry publication. Butler Works has also received the "Pennsylvania Governor's Award" for labor-management cooperation.

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