Butler, IN: Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) Flat Rolled Products

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The Butler flat-roll mill is capable of producing 3 million tons of steel annually. While some hot-band coils go directly to customers who provide their own finishing and coating services, a significant amount goes on to our cold mill complex or to other SDI facilities for further processing into value-added products. Our cold-finishing capabilities include pickling, cold rolling, tempering, annealing, and galvanizing. The campus also features a state-of-the-art coilcoating line with an annual capability of painting 300,000 tons in gauges from .012 to .070 inches and in widths from 40 to 62 inches.

This was the first mill built by SDI. The founders built a greenfield plant so that it could be as modern as possible using mini-mill technologies. The Butler Division has expanded with a finishing plant in Jeffersonville, IN. [SDI-butler2] The founders, Keith Busse, Mark Millett, and Dick Teets, created the company in 1993. "Production of hot-rolled steel began early in 1996, followed by the addition of a cold mill in late 1997. In the summer of 1998, further expansion pushed the mill’s annual capacity to 2.2 million tons. In 2003, we added a coil-coating line with the capacity to paint 300,000 tons of steel annually to the flat-roll campus. Also in 2003, we acquired the former GalvPro facility at Jeffersonville, Indiana. Specializing in finishing thinner-gauge steel, Jeffersonville has the capacity to coat 300,000 to 350,000 tons annually of cold-rolled steel produced at Butler, and has the capacity to paint 190,000 tons annually on its state-of-the-art coil-coating line." In 2009 they reached their start-up goal of 3 million tons per year. [SDI-bulter-about]

Steel Dynamics Flat Roll Group Butler Division posted four photos with the comment: "The Butler Division has come a long way since we sold our first product in 1996! Here are some throwback images from when it all began."

Joe Allen shared with the comment: "Been here for 25yrs and have loved almost every second of it."

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Given the three electrodes in the upper-left corner, it is pouring something into an electric arc furnace.

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9:36 video @ 0:40, Electric Arc Furnace
115 million watts
Later they say that is enough electricity to power Tampa for three days. Which means watthours instead of watts. A difference by a factor of 3*24=72. I find 1.6mw a lot easier to believe.

9:36 video @ 1:22, Electric Arc Furnace