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North Star Bluescope Steel LLC
North Star BlueScope Steel produces flat rolled hot banded steel. We produce our steel by melting scrap steel, alloys and virgin iron into our electric arc funaces. Once molten, the liquid steel is carried to our Ladle Metallurgical Furnaces where it is further refined to meet customer specifications. From there, it is transported by crane to our Caster where it cools slightly on the surface and is transformed into a slab. Once it exits the Caster, it gets sheared into segments and sent into a tunnel furnace to regulate the temperature before rolling. Then it passes through 2 roughing stands that reduce its size by half, then it passes through 6 finishing stands where it finishes rolling. It then goes to the coilers and gets coiled up, banded and sent to shipping to cool off before it is sent off to the customer. Each year we make about 2.2 million tons of flat rolled steel primarily from recycled scrap steel.