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DeMattia Group Creates New Industrial Park Facility in Michigan

10 February 1999

DeMattia Group Creates New Industrial Park Facility in Michigan For U.S. Steel/Olympic Steel Joint Venture

    VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich., Feb. 10 -- DeMattia Group reports
that Olympic Laser Processing (OLP, L.L.C.), a joint venture between the U.S.
Steel division of USX and Cleveland-based Olympic Steel
, is now operating from its new 154,000-square-foot manufacturing
facility at 6331 Schooner Dr. in the 144-acre Michigan Avenue Industrial Park
in Van Buren Township.
    The new industrial park, located north of I-94 and west of I-275, is a
development of DeMattia Group, who designed and built the new facility for the
automotive supplier.  It is one of few planned heavy industrial parks in
Southeast Michigan.
    The $4.5-million Olympic Laser Processing facility houses two of the
world's most advanced laser blank welding production lines, capable of
manufacturing three million blanks annually for shipment to automotive
stamping plants.  DeMattia Group created the building, which sits on a 27-
acres site, with capabilities to expand to four times its original size.
    DeMattia Group, based in Plymouth, Mich., is a full-service real estate,
construction and design firm, offering innovative solutions in site selection,
land planning, design/build construction, architecture, engineering,
construction management, real estate financing, interior design and property
management.
    OLP is pioneering new areas in laser blank welding technology, such as
vision-based seam tracking, dual spot Nb:YAG laser welding, fully automated
materials-handling systems and non-linear laser blank welding applications.
This new technology enables the automotive companies to design and manufacture
more complex, yet affordable, tailor-welded blanks while, at the same time,
reducing the manufacturing cost of more traditional shapes.  OLP was formed in
1997 as a joint venture of its two parent companies.