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Installation and operation of a ladle metallurgy facility at USS/Kobe Steel INSTALLATION of a ladle metallurgy facility (LMF) at Lorains continuous caster spanned 90 days from groundbreaking to the first successful heat of steel. The primary reason for this relative short installation and start-up time was the cooperation and communication between engineering, operating and maintenance departments, and the installation contractors. The Lorain facility, formerly a USS Div. of USX Corp., is now a joint partnership (50/50) between USS and Kobe Steel Ltd. The plant occupies 2.70 sq miles on the south side of the city of Lorain, Ohio, approximately 25 miles west of Cleveland, near Lake Erie. The plant is a primary source of bar products mostly directed at automotive and fastener industries as well as seamless and ERW pipe for oil country and other petrochemical applications. It has three operable blast furnaces (2 x 1500tons/day and 1 x 3600 tons/day), two 220-ton BOF vessels and a continuous caster. The caster produces a variety of cross-sections and steel grades for sourcing the plants finishing facilities as well as customers. Caster capacity is 750,000 tons/year, but it has already achieved 900,000 tons in a calendar year. The balance of the raw steel produced, approximately 2 million tons/year, is converted to 11-ton ingots which are rolled at the 46/40-in. tandem breakdown rolling and sizing mills. Finishing facilities include one 12-in. and one 10-in. bar mill for rounds rated at approximately 750,000 and 420,000 tons/year, respectively. Bar mill product ranges in.size from 0.464 to 3.0625 in. Tubular facilities include two seamless piercing mills producing product from 2 to 26-in. OD with a cornbined annual capacity of 540,000 tons and one ERW mill for product in the 2 to 6-in. OD range with an annual capacity of approximately 110,000 tons. Attempts to justify a buffer between the BOF and caster, whether a ladle furnace or a plasma torch heating unit had been