Cleveland-Cliffs Cleveland steel plant

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Cleveland-Cliffs Cleveland steel plant, also known as Cleveland Works, ArcelorMittal Cleveland steel plant (predecessor), LTV Steel (predecessor), is a steel plant in Cleveland, Ohio, United States that operates blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) technology.

Location

The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Cleveland, Ohio, United States:

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• Location: 3060 Eggers Road, Cleveland, OH 44105, United States
• Coordinates (WGS 84): 41.464041, -81.676499 (exact)

Background

The Cleveland-Cliffs Cleveland steel plant began operating in 1913 under the original name of Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co. It was owned by LTV Corp, then bought by ArcelorMittal, then passed into the hands of Cleveland-Cliffs after ArcelorMittal was acquired by Cleveland-Cliffs in December 2020.

Environmental Compliance

In 2008, advocacy group Ohio Citizen Action filed a complaint with the EPA about the blast furnace. The group claimed former owner LTV Corp. nearly doubled the blast furnace's capacity during the 1980s without installing proper environmental controls.

In 2020, ArcelorMittal agreed to pay nearly $5 million to settle lawsuits which claimed that the company had violated the Clean Air Act at three separate facilities, including the Cleveland facility.

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Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Start date	Workforce size	Coal source
1913	2100	Coke supplied from Cleveland-Cliffs Warren, Ohio facility

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company	Parent company PermID	Parent company GEM ID	Owner	Owner company PermID	Owner company GEM ID
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc	4295903753	E100001000649	Cleveland-Cliffs Inc	4295903753	E100001000649

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category	Steel products	Steel sector end users	ISO 14001	Main production equipment
semi-finished, finished rolled	slab, cold rolled, hot rolled	automotive, building and infrastructure, energy, steel packaging, tools and machinery, transport	2023	BF; BOF

Table 4: Plant-level Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

¹Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.

Capacity operating status1	Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity	Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
operating	4100	4100

Table 5: Plant-level Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

¹Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.

Capacity operating status1	Blast furnace capacity	Nominal iron capacity (total)
operating	2810	2810

Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

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Table 7: Actual Plant-level Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year	BOF production	Total (all routes)
2019	3000	3000
2020	2000	2000
2021	2758	2758
2022	2973	2973
2023	3362	3362

Table 8: Actual Plant-level Crude Iron Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year	BF production	Total (all routes)
2019	2637	2637
2020	1447	1447
2021	2211	2211
2022	1800	1800
2023	2700	2700

Unit Details

Table 9: Blast Furnace Details

Unit name	Status	Start date	Furnace manufacturer and model	Current size	Current capacity (ttpa)	Decarbonization technology	Most recent relining
BF 5	operating	1942	Defense Plant Corp.	1546.0	1440	unknown	2022-08
BF 6	operating	1952	Defense Plant Corp.	1598.0	1370	unknown	2013

Table 10: Basic Oxygen Furnace Details

Unit name	Status	Start date	Current capacity (ttpa)	Current size
unknown BOF (1)	operating	1961	1150	217.0 tonnes
unknown BOF (2)	operating	1961	1150	217.0 tonnes
unknown BOF (3)	operating	1956	900	130.0 tonnes
unknown BOF (4)	operating	1956	900	130.0 tonnes

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Resources

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