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Joliet Iron and Steel Company was a steel manufacturer located in Joliet, Illinois. The Union Coal, Iron and Transportation Company was founded in 1869. In 1873, it was reorganized into the Joliet Iron and Steel Company. [1] [2] In 1889 the company became part of Illinois Steel Company. [3] The Joliet Works of Illinois Steel ceased operations ...
In 1889, the facility merged with three other steel mills to form a new company called Illinois Steel, which later became part of Federal Steel. [1] By 1901, the company was under the control of US Steel. [1] By 1951, the South Works boasted 11 blast furnaces, 8 electric furnaces, and 12 rolling mills, and employed some 15,000 employees. [2]
[3] [4] Joliet Steel Works eventually became unprofitable, and all operations were ceased by the early 1980s. [5] In the 1990s, the Forest Preserve District of Will County purchased the property containing the ruins of the ironworks to preserve a piece of history. The district operates the site as the Joliet Iron Works Historic Site.
Illinois Steel grew to become one of the largest steel and iron producers in the country by the late 1880s, producing over 1.1 million tons of pig iron and about one million tons of steel. The company specialized in rail track (including rail, fastenings, and steel plates), mineral wool , wire, pig iron, and hydraulic Portland cement .
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50 Years of Inland Steel 1893-1943. Inland Steel Company – via University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bawal, Raymond (2016). The Inland Steel Fleet 1911-1998. Inland Expressions. ISBN 978-1-939150-13-4. Thompson, Mark L. (1991). Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. Knoedler, Janet (1993).
The $14.9 billion sale of iconic steelmaker US Steel to Japan’s Nippon Steel ends months of speculation over industry consolidation in a move criticized by union workers, but seen by one analyst ...
Commercial Metals Company (CMC), headquartered in Irving, Texas, is a producer of rebar and related products for the construction industry. Along with Nucor, it is one of two primary suppliers of steel used to reinforce concrete in buildings, bridges, roads, and infrastructure in the U.S.