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Pages in category "Ironworks and steel mills in Pennsylvania" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Lukens Steel Company, located in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, is the oldest iron mill in commission within the United States. In 1995, it was one of the three largest producers of plate steel and the largest domestic manufacturer of alloy-plate.
The mill was built by Alexander Lyman Holley, who found a manager to run the mill, Captain Bill Jones, a Civil War veteran. On August 22, 1875, the Edgar Thomson Steel Works' hulking Bessemer converter produced its first heat of liquid steel, destined to become 2,000 steel rails for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
A preferred share of Bethlehem Steel Corporation stock, issued July 6, 1911 Naval artillery being assembled at Bethlehem Steel, c. 1918 The Bethlehem Steel mill in 1930 Bethlehem Graveyard and Steel Mill, a famed Great Depression-era photo of St. Michael's Cemetery in Bethlehem (foreground) and the smokestacks of Bethlehem Steel (background) in ...
It was reorganized and renamed the Cambria Steel Company in 1898, purchased by Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company in 1916, and sold to the Bethlehem Steel Company in 1923. [ 4 ] The company's facilities, which extend some 12 miles (19 km) along the Conemaugh and Little Conemaugh rivers, operated until 1992.
Midland Cyclops Steel Plant until October 15, 1982 [22] McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania Wheel and Axel plant (Lockhart Iron and Steel and Pressed Steel Car Corp.) Pressed Steel had as many as 12,000 employees. [23] Donora US Steel Wire mill -1966 4,500 employees [24] [25] [26] Monessen American Chain & Cable -1972 1,000 employees. [24]
In 1949, Crucible began operations in an $18 million sheet and strip mill at the Midland works, becoming the first steel mill to use hot and cold rolling of stainless and high-alloy sheet and strip. Iron Age, manufacturer of the hot reversing mill, called this a transition from a curiosity to standard production practice; ovens on both sides of ...
The mill was announced on May 22, 1937 and opened in phases starting on March 2, 1938 while being dedicated on December 15, 1938 [2] for U.S. Steel and was constructed by Mesta Machinery. U.S. Steel has claimed that construction of the hilltop site required more cubic yards of earth moved (4.4 million cubic yards) than any project other than ...