What I do

Ever get asked this question???
Well this is never a fun one if your boss asks you :) but every once in a while people start wondering just what is it that you do when you go to work? Well with that in mind I thought I'd write a little bit about what I spend my time doing when I'm not sleeping or hanging with the fam.

1) I go to meetings seems like anymore I spend 2-3 hours a day in meetings, most of them are updates about day-to-day goings on in the company status of each plants safety quality and production, what major issues they are facing and so on.
2) Try to figure out ways to make good steel and answer questions that customers have about our products, usually problems they are having, but also technical questions about how the products perform.

In Ashland we make;
Coke - a key ingrediant in smelting Iron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_%28fuel%29

Iron - a smelting process used to turn Iron-oxide ore into liquid iron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_furnace



Steel- a process that converts liquid iron into steel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_oxygen_furnace

We cast the steel into slabs 9.5" thick up to 72" wide and up to 34' long
Slabs are taken to middletown where they are rolled on the Hot Strip mill into coils
Coils are then pickled (to remove scale FeO) and then cold rolled down to the final gauge the customer requires.

At this point coils are sent back to us in Ashland for coating at the Galvanize/Galvanneal line

This operation anneals the strip to meet customer formability requirements, coats the strip with a Zn coating in molten Zn (Zinc) and coils the steel up for shipment to the customer.

The coils we produce go on the most critical customer applications including car hoods, roofs, doors, and quarter panels, for demanding customers such as Toyota, Nissan, Chrysler, GM, Ford, and several others.