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SDI-butler1 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.
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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
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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. [
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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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SDI-product-guide, p1 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. |
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9:36 video @ 1:22, Electric Arc Furnace |
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