Friday, January 12, 2018

Ashland, KY: Kentucky Electric Steel is closing

(Satellite)
Their website is broke. Fortunately, Google snarfed some photos from it when it was still running.

Google
Brian McIntyre, Dec 2015

113 jobs to be cut in Ashland plant closure

This is interesting since the economy currently seems strong. I've seen more cranes in the past couple of years than I have ever seen before. Norfolk Southern's customer base is also growing.

Steve Pajak commented on a posting: "I wonder if it has to do with emissions and environmental issues."

7/24/2018 - Steel Dynamics Inc. is planning to acquire a shuttered bar mill in Kentucky.
They won't restart the melt facility, just the rolling mill. They will source steel billets from some eastern locations that they already own.

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