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LTV Steel Wins Toyota Quality Award

8 March 2000

LTV Steel Wins Toyota Quality Award

    CLEVELAND, March 7 LTV Steel today announced that it has
received the Quality Achievement Award from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Inc.
The award recognizes the consistently high quality steel products made by LTV
for Toyota during 1999. LTV produces a full line of value-added flat rolled
steel for Toyota's plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, its parts suppliers, and the
New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) -- an automotive joint venture
between Toyota and General Motors in California.
    "Toyota is a long-standing, valued customer of LTV Steel," said David E
Althoff, vice president, sales and marketing-automotive. "We appreciate this
award very much; not only does it recognize our performance in 1999, it also
signifies our commitment to meet Toyota's high standard of quality in the
future."
    The LTV Corporation is a manufacturing company with interests
in steel, metal fabrication and leading steel technologies. LTV is committed
to pursuing domestic and international growth opportunities to increase
shareholder value. LTV's Integrated Steel segment is a leading producer of
high-quality, value-added flat rolled steel, and a major supplier to the
transportation, appliance, electrical equipment and service center industries.
LTV's Metal Fabrication segment consists of LTV Copperweld, the largest
producer of tubular and bimetallic products in North America and VP Buildings,
a leading producer of pre-engineered metal buildings for low-rise commercial
applications. LTV's Corporate and Other segment includes investments in
leading steel technologies consisting of a 50 percent interest in Trico Steel,
a flat rolled steel minimill in Alabama, and a 46.5 percent interest in Cliffs
and Associates reduced iron venture in Trinidad.