Steel Mill
A plant with 6,000 employees, owned by ArcelorMittal. Makes hot-rolled and cold-rolled sheet steel for the automotive, container, appliance, and other industries. The easternmost of the row of major steel plants in this 20-mile strip of Indiana, along the Lake Michigan shore, the biggest...
One of the largest steel plants in the world once stood at this site in Fontana. The plant was originally built here in World War Two, to supply steel for Kaiser's wartime shipyards, which produced hundreds of ships on the west coast in just a few years. The plant, built inland from the coast to...
Looming on Interstate 40 west of Kingman, this steel mini mill was built by North Star Steel in 1996, the seventh of several mini mills built by the company. This facility makes rebar and wire core rod, with waste metal imported from the scrap yards of Las Vegas and Los Angeles. North Star Steel,...
LTV Steel, the nation's third largest steelmaker, has a plant here, in the Indiana Harbor steelworks site, one of the largest contiguous heavy-industry locations in the USA. Almost half of LTV’s raw steel is produced here (the company’s Cleveland Works makes a bit more). Most of the Indiana Harbor...
One of the largest steel plants in the nation, this facility employs 10,000 people. One of several major steel plants in this 20-mile strip of Indiana, along the Lake Michigan shore, which is the biggest concentration of steel plants in the country. Right next to this facility is LTV Steel's...
LTV Steel, the nation's third largest steelmaker, built a "mini-mill" here with much fanfare in 1997, using a new process which promises to significantly reduce the number of workers needed to produce steel. LTV, the first major American steel company to develop this technology, soon went bankrupt...
This is one of the largest steel plants in the country, employing around 8,000 people, and it is owned by USX, the largest American steel company. One of several major steel plants in this 20-mile strip of Indiana, along the Lake Michigan shore, which is the biggest concentration of steel plants in...