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LTV Steel Buy Recycled Program Achieves All-Time High

17 March 2000

LTV Steel Buy Recycled Program Achieves All-Time High

    CLEVELAND, March 17 LTV Steel today announced
that it purchased in excess of $15.5 million in recycled products and supplies
in 1999, establishing a new all-time record for the Company's Buy Recycled
Program.
    LTV's recycled product purchases of more than $15.5 million, surpassed the
1999 goal of $13.7 million by nearly 19 percent. In all, 19 recycled products
were purchased from 29 suppliers. The previous record was set in 1998, when
the company's recycled purchases reached $13.1 million.
    For 2000, LTV has established a goal of over $16.3 million, a 5-percent
increase over 1999. In addition, the company will seek to expand the number of
recycled products and suppliers.
    "The successes we achieved in 1999 are a direct result of a company-wide
commitment to this important environmental initiative," said Richard J.
Hipple, president-LTV Steel. "While we are firmly focused on recycling within
our steel operations whenever feasible, we recognize that these efforts are
complete only if there also is an ongoing emphasis on buying recycled
products."
    The recycled products are used throughout LTV Steel plants and offices and
include office supplies, tissue products, forms, retreaded tires, lubricants,
absorbents, packaging, batteries, re-refined fuel oil and wire and cable.
LTV's steel scrap purchases are not included in the Buy Recycled Program.
    LTV established the Buy Recycled Program in 1994 and is one of the
founders of the Ohio Buy Recycled Business Alliance, formed in 1995 as a
network of Ohio businesses that are committed to increasing their purchases of
recycled-content products and materials. Since the inception of the Buy
Recycled program, LTV's purchases of recycled products have grown from
$2.2 million to last year's $15.5 million.
    LTV seeks to increase the program each year, establishing goals to
increase the dollar amount of purchases, increase the number of products or
expand the number of suppliers.
    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.