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Rockport Works is located on the Ohio River in southwest Indiana, about an hour's drive east of Evansville. The new state-of-the-art carbon and stainless steel finishing operations are housed in more than 1,750,000 square feet of buildings. Utilizing the latestmanufacturing technologies, the plant incorporates Automated Guidance Vehicles (AGV) and automated cranes to move the steel through the various finishing operations.
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 Steels from Rockport Works include a full range of cold rolled carbon, coated and stainless steels in either the annealed and pickled or temper rolled surface condition. Among Rockport's products are: Carbon and stainless steels produced on the only cold mill in the world designed to tandem roll austenitic and ferritic grades of stainless steel, as well as carbon steel. Hot dip galvanized products that are continuously coated on both sides with free zinc, a process that provides a tight metallurgical bond. Hot dip galvannealed products that are continuously coated on both sides with zinc, then heated by induction to alloy the zinc and create a zinc-iron coating. The Rockport hot dip galvanizing and galvannealing line incorporates revolutionary proprietary technologies, including induction transition heating which provides rapid, accurate annealing temperature control. In addition, the Rockport Works line produces the widest sheet steel in North America at 80 inches.
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