Our Commitment Operations Employment Information Gary Works is U. S. Steel s largest manufacturing plant and the largest integrated steel plant in North America. Covering almost 4,000 acres on the south shore of Lake Michigan in Gary, Indiana, the plant is close to the major automobile manufacturing areas of the country and has excellent access to water and rail transportation and to major interstate highways.
Raw materials arrive and finished steel departs daily by ship, barge, train and truck.
Starting with raw materials iron ore, coal, coke and limestone Gary Works has the capacity to produce 7.7 million tons of raw steel annually. Producing this much steel requires coordinated performances by people in a wide variety of production, maintenance and support jobs. It also requires an enormous amount of steam, compressed air, natural gas, electricity, water and similar materials and services to run all of the plant's complex machinery. Gary Works consumes more than 4.25 million kilowatt hours of electricity each day and generates another 1.2 million kilowatt hours itself altogether enough electricity to power 240,000 homes. The plant uses about 70 million cubic feet of natural gas and 390 million gallons of water daily, most of which is recycled.