National Steel Builds Coke Oven Complex
National Steel Corp. has announced plans to construct a new 85-oven coke battery complex at its Great Lakes Division near Detroit.
The new facility, which will replace the No.5 coke battery shut down in 1986, will include a by-products plant and coal and coke handling facilities.
When it becomes operational, the battery will produce 890,000 tons of coke each year and enable National’s Great Lakes Division to produce about 60% of its own coke requirements, spokesmen said.
Construction is scheduled to begin within the next two months and operations are expected to begin in late 1992.
National Steel, based in Pittsburgh, is the nation’s fifth largest steelmaker. The company employs 12,000 people at plants in Ecorse, Mich., near Detroit; Portage, Ind., near Chicago; and Granite City , Ill., near St. Louis.
