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U.S. Steel Breaks Ground for New Michigan Automotive Center

23 September 1998

U.S. Steel Breaks Ground for New Michigan Automotive Center

    TROY, Mich., Sept. 22 -- U.S. Steel's Automotive Group held
groundbreaking ceremonies here today for a new 43,300-square-foot automotive
center in Troy, Michigan.  The two-story building will house U.S. Steel's
Detroit-area sales, customer technical service and product application support
staffs.  The building also will include a 14,000-square-foot steel
applications research facility.
    U.S. Steel President Paul J. Wilhelm and Mayor Jeanne M. Stine of Troy
participated in the ceremonies which were attended by numerous public and
corporate officials.
    Site of the building is 5850 New King Court, near the I-75/Crooks Road
Interchange.
    "It is essential that we have a significant hands-on presence here in the
automobile capital of the world," said Wilhelm.  "And this new automotive
center will enable us to more effectively address the needs of our automotive
customers worldwide.
    "This new center will help U.S. Steel build on the strengths of our
current automotive team.  The focus of our Detroit research efforts will be on
advancing technology for sheet steel applications for the automotive industry
and maintaining steel as the material of choice.  Our mission will be to
improve the quality and performance of our products and to help our automotive
customers reduce their costs."
    Supporting the center's future research activities will be facilities for
evaluating steel properties, simulative forming tests to evaluate sheet steel
performance in a variety of manufacturing conditions, an 1,100-ton hydraulic
stamping press for full-scale stamping research, component testing for
structural performance and Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) facilities to
support design and computer simulation capabilities.
    U.S. Steel plans to add 10 technicians and engineers to support
the new facility.  These additions will increase the company's total Troy
staff to approximately 110.
    "These skilled people, combined with our new state-of-the-art research
capabilities, will complement the cross-functional team of professionals we
already have assembled here to serve the auto industry," said J. James Kutka,
general manager-automotive for U.S. Steel.
    "These new facilities are expected to benefit many employees throughout
U.S. Steel, as well as our customers," added Kutka.  "We'll have a training
center in the building where I anticipate we will often have our employees
working shoulder-to-shoulder with our customers."
    For U.S. Steel, Giffels Technologies, Inc., an affiliate of Giffels
Associates of Southfield, Michigan, is providing architectural design and
program management.  Synergy Group, Inc. is the general contractor, and
Kojaian Management Group is the developer.

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