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Buckeye Steel Castings was a Columbus, Ohio steelmaker best known today for its longtime president, Samuel P. Bush, who was the grandfather of President George H. W. Bush and great-grandfather of President George W. Bush. Buckeye, named for the Ohio Buckeye tree, was founded in Columbus as the Murray-Hayden Foundry, which made iron farm
Frederick J. Griffiths (December 11, 1878 - October 17, 1951) was an early, English-born engineer in the Stark County, Ohio steel industry. He is best known for working with Henry Ford to develop a vanadium alloy steel in order to produce lighter-weight, stronger automobiles.
Worthington Enterprises, Inc. is a global diversified metals manufacturing company based in Columbus, Ohio.It is a steel processor and manufacturer of pressure vessels, such as propane, oxygen and helium tanks, hand torches, refrigerant and industrial cylinders, camping cylinders, exploration, recovery and production products for global energy markets; water system tanks for storage, treatment ...
A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America, 1865–1925 (1995) Chapter 1 "The Dominance of Rails" Nasaw, David. Andrew Carnegie (The Penguin Press, 2006). Paskoff, Paul F. Iron and Steel in the Nineteenth Century (Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography) (1989) 385 pp; biographies and brief corporate histories; Rogers ...
Olympic Steel, Inc. is a metals service center based in Cleveland, Ohio. The company processes and distributes carbon, coated and stainless flat-rolled sheet, coil and plate steel, aluminium alloy, tin plate, and metal-intensive branded products primarily in the United States. Metals processing and value added services include tempering ...
In 1949, Portsmouth Steel settled a labor dispute with the CIO. [9] In 1950, the Detroit Steel Corporation bought Portsmouth Steel. [2] In 1956, Detroit Steel completed a $150 million modernization program for the plant, including a new coke plant and a steam plant that made use of the waste gas from the blast furnace and coke plant to generate ...
The Continental Steel Corporation was United States steel producer from 1927 until 1986. The company was created on June 21, 1927, through the merger of the Kokomo Steel and Wire Company (founded in Kokomo, Indiana, in 1901) with the Superior Sheet Steel Company of Canton, Ohio, and the Chapman Price Steel Company of Indianapolis. Among the ...
In June 2004, ISG acquired the assets of bankrupt Georgetown Steel for $18 million in cash. [1] [8] In July 2004, ISG acquired an idled hot-briquetted iron facility in Point Lisas, Trinidad and Tobago for $18 million in cash. It was restarted in November 2004. [1] [9] In April 2005, the company was acquired by Mittal Steel Company. [10]