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Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. (CCI, formerly Cliffs Natural Resources) is an American steel manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio. They specialize in the mining , beneficiation , and pelletizing of iron ore , as well as steelmaking, including stamping and tooling .
Henry Chisholm (April 22, 1822 – May 9, 1881) was a Scottish American businessman and steel industry executive during the Gilded Age in the United States. A resident of Cleveland, Ohio, he purchased a small, struggling iron foundry which became the Cleveland Rolling Mill, one of the largest steel firms in the nation.
By 1880, Cleveland was a major steel producer, with ten steel mills and 3,000 steelworkers. [ 10 ] The city of Gary, Indiana was founded in 1906 by United States Steel Corporation to serve the Gary Works .
The first blast furnace in Cleveland was built by the firm in 1861. In November 1863, an investment from Stone led to the expansion and reorganization of the company, which then became the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company. [3] In 1868 the company installed a pair of Bessemer converters, and started using them to produce steel. [1]
In 1893 Cleveland's production of nuts and bolts surpassed all other American cities. Upson Nut Company (in 1864 it was called the Union Nut Company [12]) was a foremost maker of cold and hot pressed and forged nuts, bolts and washers. [13] Finished steel was delivered from Republic's Youngstown plant to Upson's plant on 1970 Carter Road in ...
Bird's-eye view map of Cleveland in 1877. The city of Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleaveland of the Connecticut Land Company on July 22, 1796. Its central location on the southern shore of Lake Erie and the mouth of the Cuyahoga River allowed it to become a major center for Great Lakes trade in northern Ohio in the early 19th century.
Cleveland Cliffs made an unsolicited $8.3 billion cash and stock offer for US Steel last year that was supported by the union, but it was rejected by the company. The nation’s automakers ...
Steel is an alloy composed of between 0.2 and 2.0 percent carbon, with the balance being iron. From prehistory through the creation of the blast furnace, iron was produced from iron ore as wrought iron, 99.82–100 percent Fe, and the process of making steel involved adding carbon to iron, usually in a serendipitous manner, in the forge, or via the cementation process.