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The Crucible Steel Company of America was formed from the merger of thirteen crucible-steel companies in 1900. This, known as "the great consolidation of 1900", inspired other steel companies to form U.S. Steel a year later. [10]
Walter Arensberg was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the oldest child of Conrad Christian Arensberg and his second wife, Flora Belle Covert. Walter's father was President and partial owner of a successful Pittsburgh crucible steel company. Between 1896 and 1900, Walter attended Harvard University. Following graduation, he traveled to Europe ...
The Carnegie Boys: The Lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie that Changed America (McFarland, 2012). Temin, Peter. Iron and Steel in Nineteenth-Century America, An Economic Inquiry (1964) Wall, Joseph Frazier. Andrew Carnegie (1989). ISBN 0-8229-5904-6. Warren, Kenneth, Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation, 1901–2001.
In 2002 it was revealed the company had underfunded the pension for employees by $44 million. [4] GS Steel derives its name from Georgetown Steel which operates a steel plant in Georgetown, South Carolina. The South Carolina and Missouri operations were combined by Bain. [7] The South Carolina plant closed in 2003.
US Steel was once the pride and joy of the United States and the most valuable company in the entire world. The 122-year-old company has agreed to be bought by Japanese firm Nippon Steel in a $14. ...
Steelmaking in Clairton dates back to at least 1903, when the newly-formed U.S. Steel purchased a half-interest in the Crucible Steel Company of America's furnace and steel factory in the city. [6] The broader region was the epicenter of steelmaking in the United States, largely because of the Pittsburgh seam , an extensive deposit of high ...
The Illinois Steel Workers Alliance, when reached on Thursday, said that closure of the steel facility will affect 260 employees and the wire mill idling will affect 280 workers for a total of 540 ...
The company, known as Henry Disston and Sons, Inc by the early 20th century, cast the first crucible steel in the nation from an electric furnace in 1906. The firm's armor-plating building near Princeton Avenue and Milnor Street contributed tremendously to the World War II effort, building a volume of armor plates for steel tanks.