Currently, there are 300 employees of which 100 are salaried and 200 hourly. Major plant facilities are a two d-c electric arc furnace, two ladle metallurgy furnaces, two slab machines and two tunnel furnaces with shuttle furnace. The hot strip mill has an edger, two roughing stands, a coilbox, a 5-stand finishing mill and two downcoilers. Plant capacity is rated at 2.2 million finished tons per year based on the operation of the existing two electric arc furnaces, two casting machines and hot strip mill. Product sizes include widths of between 36 and 65 inches, gages between 0.040 and 0.625 inches, a profile of less than 0.0015 inches, a flatness greater than 25 I-units and a coil size of 1000 piw.
Typical markets are service centres, pipe, tube and conduit, construction, automotive and others.
Applications, in addition to line pipe and structural pipe, include heavy gage cold rolled, water heaters, frames, metal buildings, stampings etc. Trico Steel Company is an LTV joint venture in leading steel technologies. Construction of the Trico flat rolled steel mini-mill was completed in 1997. Production and shipments began in April 1997. The company is shipping a full range of hot rolled steel products, which are being recognised by customers for exceptional dimension and surface quality.