Document RaM67oBRM21X8V8aLKpoqX8jn

STEELMILL PRODUCTS o' JUP UPDATE - 6/5/75 ) Page b Kay Account Review, continued Western Region, continued USS-Cary - $1 Oh,000 down on hot tops; SI 2,000 up on C&A products. 607, reduction in steel. Two new BEU approved with truckload order. Testing DESULFEX this week. IC0R0N test for stools as soon as business picks up. Gary wants Exo hot top. Inland - $88,000 over forecast; plus record month in May; $30-000 over in CtA due to slow moving of GARNEX system. Excellent backup fro.:: Chicago Plant. Still have FERRUX problem with smoke. Tested 770 FERRUX, looks good. DESULFEX test unsatisfactory-cannot be put on bottom of ladle. Wisconsin Steel - over S26.000 in hot tops; $16,000 over in CT-A, all GARNEX. Quite a slow down - 10 out of 21 turns down. Closed one week ir, June. DESULFEX pitch this week and low price FERRUX. Still need asbeiios free successful recipe. YSC-T - $30,000 down in hot tops and $63,000 down in- Cf,A due to KOi'.OU forecast. Open hearth down three months. TEEBRIX being presented; testing DESULFEX 120 and 150- Laclede - down $22,000 in hot tops; need h-pc. hot tryr here. Tool has been or-, list for sometime. Sonv scheduling problems with Ctiyaho- Pattern. Mr. Var.rfcHiark voiced concern with the tooling setup fom dr'i-:n forwerd and Dr. Phoenix reported Cuyahoga Pattern is not fc-tlled ye"; still hiring and training personnel. Republic Steel - over S136.000 end S6,0C0 down in C'A. Order hock full for June and July. Have 87 so.al-on castings now; 9 due: in June. Intcrlaka - Down SIO.OOC. Problems due Vo csbcclo;. froe boards. iosL slow doc to no orders. TEEBRIX will be introduced in the future. Keyst- Down Sh] ,200; CtA slow GARNEX progress. Slow on steel orders. Will by clown July 27 to August II. Need quote on a b-pc. TEEiir. IX presentation made - not too promising. Finkl On forecast. Testing KAI.KIN'-X. Arrrco !*..C. - $9;1,000 be lew fo: I..-!'.; carlo, cl e* *'. -pc. ship: ir..| June- S22,0U'.;. lU.qu?? I for h-pc. - 2/26/75; wmock-l,-- i ...-tod !-/29' /!'. Have ieoling orilor at TUSECU. Will try G/.Ri.'CX in spring 1977. Tcniiusv; .>11. '-noi *. - down $36^0 low pro'.k.'c ion. l:L' jdi.f LX trial. l.'v.J GARI'EX quoie. Iowa Sice! - GARNEX sales call scheduled rco.id v.\. of Jen-. maawMWMwnm i-- 2215 H STEELMILL PRODUCTS C P UPDATE - 6/5/75 ) Page 5 II Key Account Review, continued Paci fic District CFG-1 - looks like we have lost hot top business due to dusting boards. GARNEX should come on stream in October; $42,000 a month. Armco-Houston - new price and new approach working on this week. Kaiser - Over S86,000 and over S34.000 CA: mill cutting back from 5 to 3 furnaces until 4th quarter. STRIM sales holding fine. Gunning soaking pits. USS-Gencva - over $115,000 and down $37,000 in CtA; looks like this production will hold. USS-Torrance - down $43,000 C&A. GARNEX program back on and it looks good. Mr. Bernsrdi stated we're in the process of using 5771 recipe because of better contribution. Inland) Steel side boards. Designing and testing in Exo for Sparrows Pt. USS-Gary - Exo or Feedex. Asbestos-free ring trial at Great Lakes. Dr. Phoenix asked if we- can't make a recipe to feed injection machine; pr 672P, Mr. Wood said is the answer; however, according to Mr. Marino there s a scheduling problem and time constraint in accomplishing testing. Dr. Phoenix would like to see the worst of the Cleveland machines use'' for rebuild and conversion. Two plants should not have similar machinery and not utilizing well. Dr. Phoenix also asked if there w.is a real > technical problem in cold patching. Mr. Vantlemark said no, accordinn to England. Since there is no problem, this method could be used on the 685's. Ill C & A Report Set another record in May; makes fifth month out of nine record has been set in sales. GARNEX may not meet forecast only because the accounts In production will not be shipping the amount of Concast steel. Nine accounts in trial and three to start up. Manufacturing for Mt. Braddock Plant is not yet firmed up. TEEDRIX - five running accounts in Eastern Region. Quality problems seem to be solved. Sales for 1975 can easily be $500,000 this year, $400,000 in re-budget. 87 trials this year--scheduled about one half. DESUI.FEX relling at a rate close to a million dollars a year. A lot of credit due to salesmen in field. Dr. Phoenix asked if anyone has tried fluorspar fines in DESULFEX. Messrs. Driscoll, Leonard and Fowl ess are doing sc-me testing on it. Mr. Vandcmark will check on it. Cleveland Flux getting good quality fines. Most manufacturing problems solved pretty well di;c to building of inventory. Coatings 20^' off of our forecast -- lost a couple key accounts. 2216