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United States Steel Corporation operates as an integrated steel producer of flat-rolled and tubular products with major production operations in North America and Europe. Segments The company’s segments include Flat-rolled Products (Flat-rolled), U. S. Steel Europe (USSE), and Tubular Products. The Flat-rolled segment includes the operating results of the company’s North American integrated steel mills and equity investees involved in the production of slabs, rounds, strip mill plates, sheets and tin mill products, as well as all iron ore and coke production facilities in the United States and Canada. These operations primarily serve North American customers in the service center, conversion, transportation (including automotive), construction, container, and appliance and electrical markets. Flat-rolled supplies steel rounds and hot-rolled bands to Tubular. The USSE segment includes the operating results of U. S. Steel Košice (USSK), integrated steel mill and coke production facilities in Slovakia. USSE primarily serves customers in the European construction, service center, conversion, container, transportation (including automotive), appliance and electrical, and oil, gas and petrochemical markets. USSE produces and sells slabs, sheet, strip mill plate, tin mill products and spiral welded pipe, as well as heating radiators and refractory ceramic materials. The Tubular Products segment includes the operating results of the company’s tubular production facilities, located primarily in the United States, and equity investees in the United States and Brazil. These operations produce and sell seamless and electric resistance welded steel casing and tubing (commonly known as oil country tubular goods or OCTG), standard and line pipe and mechanical tubing and primarily serve customers in the oil, gas and petrochemical markets. Strategy The company focuses on providing value-added steel products, including advanced high strength steel and coated sheets for the automotive and appliance industries, electrical steel sheets for the manufacture of motors and electrical equipment, galvanized and Galvalume sheets for construction, tin mill products for the container industry and OCTG for the oil and gas industry, inclusive of providing steel to the developing North American shale oil and gas markets. Facilities and Locations Flat-rolled This segment’s facilities include Gary Works, Great Lakes Works, Mon Valley Works, Granite City Works, Lake Erie Works, Fairfield Works, and Hamilton Works. This segment also includes coke and iron ore pellet operations and various equity investees in North America. Gary Works, located in Gary, Indiana, has annual raw steel production capability of 7.5 million tons. Gary Works has three coke batteries, four blast furnaces, six steelmaking vessels, a vacuum degassing unit, and four continuous slab casters. Gary Works consumes all the coke it produces and sells coke by-products. Finishing facilities include a hot strip mill, two pickling lines, two cold reduction mills, three temper mills, a double cold reduction line, four annealing facilities, and two tin coating lines. Principal products include hot-rolled, cold-rolled and coated sheets and tin mill products. Gary Works also produces strip mill plate in coil. The company is constructing a carbon alloy facility at Gary Works, which utilizes an environmentally compliant, energy efficient and flexible production technology to produce a coke substitute product. The facility has a projected capacity of 500,000 tons per year. Construction of the first of two modules is complete and production started in 2012 with full production expected at the end of the third quarter of 2013. Construction of the second module is projected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2013, with full production expected by the end of the second quarter of 2014. The Midwest Plant and East Chicago Tin are operated as part of Gary Works. The Midwest Plant, located in Portage, Indiana, processes hot-rolled and cold rolled bands and produces tin mill products, hot dip galvanized, cold-rolled and electrical lamination sheets. Midwest facilities in