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The Commonwealth Steel Company was an American steel company based in Granite City, Illinois, founded in 1901 "by some of the young men who had helped establish the American Steel Foundry". [1] The company produced steel castings and railroad supplies at its 10-acre (4-hectare) plant, employing about 1,500 people.
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).
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]
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 .
The American Steel Industry, 1850–1970: A Geographical Interpretation (1973) (ISBN 0198232144) Whaples, Robert. "Andrew Carnegie", EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History online; U.S. Steel's History of U.S. Steel; Urofsky, Melvin I. Big Steel and the Wilson Administration: A Study in Business-Government Relations (1969) Spiegel ...
In contrast to structural steel, rebar steel grades are not harmonized yet across Europe, each country having their own national standards. However, some standardization of specification and testing methods exist under EN 10080 and EN ISO 15630: BS EN 10080: Steel for the reinforcement of concrete. Weldable reinforcing steel. General. (2005)
American Metal Market (AMM) is an online provider of industry news and metal pricing information for the U.S. steel, nonferrous and scrap markets. Products include a daily publication available electronically, live news on the publication's website, a hard-copy magazine and a series of weekly newsletters covering niche markets.
Price Ref(s). September 1994: Acquisition Owen Steel Company $87 million [3] March 2007: Acquisition Assets of Nicholas J. Bouras Inc. $63 million [4] April 2012: Divestiture Heavy fabrication plant of SMI-Owen Steel $20 million [5] June 2011: Acquisition G.A.M. Steel Pty. Ltd of Australia Undisclosed [6] October 2013: Divestiture Howell Metal ...