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I/N Kote & I/N Tech - Partnerships between subsidiaries of ISPAT International N.V. and Nippon Steel Corp.

The only policies they have posted in the lobby are Quality and Environmental, so these must be important.

David R. Lisak – Environmental Manager (card also has Human Resources and Environmental Affairs) [ Home Phone from internet - David R Lisak, (219) 465-1704, 1356 Cypress Creek Ct, Valparaiso, IN 46385 ]

I/N Tek is a 60 per cent joint venture with Nippon Steel. I/N Tek's cold rolling mill has an annual finishing capacity of one million tons.

I/N Kote is a 50 per cent Inland-owned joint venture with Nippon Steel. I/N Kote, operates electric and hot-dipped galvanizing lines having an annual capacity of 900,000 tons.

1998 Governor's Award for Excellence in Pollution Prevention

Pollution Prevention in Practice Category: I/N Tek, New Carlisle -- I/N Tek is a partnership between subsidiaries of Ispat Inland Inc. (formerly Inland Steel Co.) and Nippon Steel Corp. in Northwest Indiana. The I/N Tek facility processes approximately 1.5 million tons of sheet steel annually used in automotive and consumer goods products. I/N Tek accomplished great reductions in oil consumption by installing high-efficiency magnetic separators to remove surface steel particles generated during operations that become suspended in the lubricating rolling oil. The magnetic separators allow the oil to be reused numerous times before treatment and disposal. Through these process modifications, the company: reduced virgin oil purchases and consumption by 1.2 million pounds annually; eliminated 2.4 million pounds per year of oily wastewater and solids that required treatment before landfill disposal; and eliminated 18.6 tons of oil filter waste that was previously sent to the landfill. Contact: David Lisak, 219-654-1317.

Customer Visit for Delivery Sept 9, 2004

I/N Kote visit – September 10, 2004

Met with David Lezak. Talked about his plans and needs and his big opportunity

Didn’t get to his opportunity other than the fact that they use a lot of natural gas, so anything that would improve his efficiency would be beneficial.

His big problem is that he is trying to get his Title V permit approved and resolved by the end of this year, so he is working on that. He is fighting a legal battle to get some of the conditions less onerous. For example he is required to make 3 visual observations per day of some things for a total of 93 per month + 0. Tough to do in February. The current version gives no leeway on number of recordings to make and also links his fugitive dust to the previous permits would mean he would have to flush the highway. He doesn’t want to do that but he doesn’t want to have to do this flushing since he thinks the farmer make more dust. He plans to continue to have us measure the road dust level every month even though not required and if he has a problem he can then bring in the flusher.

He will have to test 2 stacks with the next permit – both within the

18 months of June 30, 2004 and then at least once very five years thereafter, so that shouldn’t be too difficult, which means he will get the third permit before he has to do it a second time.

We talked about his CAM plan and it sounds like he has it in control. It covered things like water flow rates to scrubber etc.

The new I/N KOTE permit will require testing the CGL or Hot Dip Galvanize Line Heating Furnace.

The new I/N Tek permit will be on a CAPO furnace. They will need to operate it at or above 95% capacity based on #/hr. of steel. This will necessitate that they align the production schedule, with IDEM and CleanAir on day shift. They will give us a printout showing through put. We should be sufficiently knowledgeable & competent on their process to certify that they were above 95%.

Testing sounds pretty easy on the NOx and we will need to get a copy of the permit to see exactly what he is required to do.

I didn’t ask him for a copy of his draft permit, we should have done that. Should have asked a little more about what his company’s issues are, but I get the feeling that the big opportunity may be to reduce the energy usage.

He might also have some burner adjustments if he has a problem with his NOx. He has never done any testing other than what we have done, which was an HCL apparently on a pickling line.

We need to get a little more familiar with what these processes are that he is working with that we have to test, and how much NOx is being generated by these processes. We may be offered to do a quick and dirty test the next time we come out, and give him some rough numbers. Maybe we can do a test with a hand-held device to give him a rough idea of where his numbers are. If that would have a big error, we probably should make sure we know what the error potential is.

He is happy we are going to be his testing company for a long time to come. He is using a small consulting firm in Indianapolis for his Title V work and apparently they are run/owned by the guy who was past administrator of IDEM. In that way, he probably has a good advocate for what he is doing. Not that complex.