Correction on the email for Plets: _www.pletsexpress.com_ (http://www.pletsexpress.com) Sorry guys, I don't type very good. Jim DiPaola Ravenna, OH ...
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Hello all Congratulation for Patrick about his self-made Kress scrap box carrier. It is realy good. I have build a ten-wheels Slag pot carrier wiht LEGO, and...
Walthers recently announced the Art Deco underpass kit for N scale which has been available in HO I guess fo a while. N 933-3800 HO 933-3190 This bridge is an...
The strike at SDI's Steel of West Virginia was settled Sunday by a union vote that was completed around 7:00 pm. Only 147 of the 440 member union voted against...
The Eramet Alloys Plant located on Ohio Route 7 on the Ohio River has followed other USW groups that have gone on strike lately. The 50 year old speciality...
Wow. I recall a week or so ago someone mentioned if these topics were related to our group. As a friend of mine would say "Darn Right". When modeling steel...
Mansfield plant shutdown Saturday September 2nd. for maintenance. Several things need repaired and they are being fixed right now. A new dust flume over the...
Guys, I have added about a dozen pictures of the roof and pulleys of the McMyler High Lift Coal Dumper at Port Reading NJ to my website. These were taken in...
... It has been many years since I toured the Mansfield Plant. Then it was called Detroit Steel, a division of the Cyclops Corporation. At that time it had the...
Hello. When Armco decided to let a motor burnup at the hot mill(truth)the modernization began. Armco contacted State and Local athorities about a major...
Great photos Jules, I spent a lot of times in the mid-eighties while attending Rutger's University photographing the dumper at Port Reading. I also spent many...
... Rutger's University photographing ... model of it which I never ... located? I'm down in Burlington ... Jim, Thanks for the nice words. I live in Brick...
Mark, who is the hot mill builder and do you know the capacity in tons per hour? How many reheat furnaces and coilers? Thanks, Bob ... From: "Mark Morgan"...
China and Korea have built or are building integrated mills as we know them. China at a rather furious pace. Japan is not currently expanding at a...
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Ukraine's huge Makeevsky Iron and Steel Works (MMZ) is currently in negotiations with USA's Nucor Steel to supply the company with over one million tons of pig...
What constitutes "giant"? Bob ... From: "Raymond Lynn Boothe, PH.D., SIA. OAH" <globealloy1@...> To: <STEEL@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 05,...
... Well Bob, I figured you would ask that question so I rechecked with the AISI, AIST and SBB sources.They could't give me a really educated guess about it....
America's oldest ferroalloy company, Globe Metallurgical Inc., will be purchased by International Metal Enterprises, Inc. for about 78 million dollars in cash...
This is an interesting problrm you bring up about Nucor and the price of scrap. Isn't the price of scrap being driven up by a huge demand from China? So...
Probaly because shipping costs from the US to China are low. There are a lot of otherwise empty ships going back to China for the next load of consumer goods...
They don't take their empty shipping containers back, it's cheaper to make new ones. Bob ... From: <b.e.brosnan@...> To: <STEEL@yahoogroups.com> Cc: "Larry...
I just came across a photo I took many years ago of a gas holder next to the Interlake/Acme coke plant in South Chicago. I am looking for info as to when this...
... The gas holder was built around 1905 by The By-Products Coke Corporation who built the Semet-Solvay coke plant. The plant was absorbed by the Interlake...
It is reported that workers at Mittal Indiana Harbor Works are about halfway through repairing a BOF vessel that burned through on August 31st. Officials...
East or West? What numbers are assigned to the BOF shops at Mittal Indiana Harbor? Which one is West and which of the East is coupled with #7? And how many...
... It seems to me that they are talking about West since they talk about vessels and not "shops". I thought that East had more than one "shop." Certainly they...