There is also a steel mill near Hamilton, OH.
Mercedez Andrade posted three photos with the comment:
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| Stelco Hamilton Works |
The mill is a lot bigger than the town of Nanticoke, ON. It looks like this mill is a relatively recent greenfield mill built further south of Hamilton so that the ore carriers did not have to waste time going through the locks of the Welland Canal.
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| Stelco Lake Erie Works, the 3D view was not available |
Bubba Dubs posted five photos with the comment: "STELCO Lake Erie Works."
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| Stelco Rod and Bar Hamilton posted 1989 - as promised - here is Page 2 from the Mechanical Shops booklet. D Eric Davis shared ite plane for Stelco Hilton works in Hamilton ont. Sadly it's rapidly disappearing. |
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| Rick Guy Evans posted A couple of blast furnaces at Dofasco, with the Center mall barely visible in the foreground. Johny Cool: Actually more than a couple blast furnaces. Startling in the foreground that #2, 3 & #4 Furnaces all running. #1 was takin down a while ago. Jesse Linklater: I was running boiler #9 that crane is replacing the stack on in the background. Great place to work. |
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| David Sanderson posted Dofasco Hamilton, Ontario |
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| David Sanderson posted #4 Blast Furnace Dofasco Hamilton, Ontario |
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| Hans Herres posted Picture of what is left of steel mills in Hamilton Ontario (unknown date and photographer) Tyler Hampson: Upper right is Dofasco and the picture barely shows half of what’s still there. |
This post taught me about these mills.
Bob Bratina posted three photos with the comment: "Stelco D demolished-2004 but Lake Erie Works is getting an upgrade and reline to 'Smart' category."
Jason Spears Was this furnace in Hamilton or Nanticoke?
Bob BratinaAuthor Jason Spears this was in Hamilton. The Nanticoke furnace is getting a major overhaul right now. We have 3 more blast furnaces going in Hamilton at ArcelorMittal Dofasco. And another in Hamilton mothballed. That’s a lot of furnaces in our area. I love them.
Brad Maybee Bob Bratina only 2 running right now at Dofasco Hamilton one is idled.
Bob BratinaAuthor You’re right
Bob Bratina posted three photos with the comment: "Stelco D demolished-2004 but Lake Erie Works is getting an upgrade and reline to 'Smart' category."
Jason Spears Was this furnace in Hamilton or Nanticoke?
Bob BratinaAuthor Jason Spears this was in Hamilton. The Nanticoke furnace is getting a major overhaul right now. We have 3 more blast furnaces going in Hamilton at ArcelorMittal Dofasco. And another in Hamilton mothballed. That’s a lot of furnaces in our area. I love them.
Brad Maybee Bob Bratina only 2 running right now at Dofasco Hamilton one is idled.
Bob BratinaAuthor You’re right
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| 2 Dennis DeBruler A rare view of the "guts" of a blast furnace. |
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| 3 Glenn Gillis Stelco Furnace D - around 2004, Bob Bratina? Bob Bratina Glenn Gillis yes. I took the picture the day before they demolished it. Came down Sept 5/04. The demo guy told me the contract was for $1 dollar. They got the salvage. |
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| Riscan Kom posted, cropped E furnace USSC (STELCO) dormant 2015 Bob Featherstone: Is there an operating blast furnace at Lake Erie Works? Brayden Rhora: Bob Featherstone yes the furnace at LEW is running. Relined the fall of 2020. Bob Featherstone: Do ore ships dock right there including 1,000 footers? Ryan Gowland: Bob Featherstone yup dock probably goes a km out into Lake Erie. |
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| Tobyn Pearson commented on Riscan's post |
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| Keith Ruitlidge posted Czarek Miłowski: Very short coke oven battery on the left side. Keith Rutlidge: Czarek Miłowski that is our #3 Coke plant. #1 is decommissioned and #2 still operating. Ryan Gowland: Czarek Miłowski 1 battery but 9m coke ovens so it pushes a lot of coke. Greg Bouchard: STELCO. My father worked there after WWII. He was a 2HI roller. Keith Rutlidge: Greg Bouchard not Stelco Dennis DeBruler: Keith Rutlidge Some of us have joined this group to learn about steel mills. Why are keeping the correct name a secret? |
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| The Beauty of Steel Project posted The last weeks/days of Stelco Hamilton blast furnace, once the most efficient lady in Canada. The mill was cold since 2010, now under demolition. The slow end of blast furnace era. Thanks to my friend Michael Hrysko for this great archive shot. |
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| Comments on the The Beauty of Steel Project post |
Stelco was founded in 1910 and was bought by US Steel in 2010 and is renamed US Steel Canada. Dofasco was founded in 1920 as a steel casting company and bought by Arcelor in 2006. "1945: With the end of the Second World War, Hamilton's mills produce about half of Canada's steel. 1954: Dofasco becomes the first steel company in North America to begin using a basic oxygen furnace, a more efficient way of making steel than the traditional open hearth method. Stelco remains committed to open hearth technology until the late 1960s. The same holds for the adoption of continuous casting technology. 1981: Stelco opens its new $800-million Lake Erie Works in Nanticoke, just as domestic demand for steel falls sharply." In general, it appears that Dofasco was quick to modernize and Stelco was slow. And the two companies also had different relations with unions. [TheSpec]
The fifties represented a time of rapid expansion for Dofasco. In 1950, engineers reclaimed land from Hamilton’s Bay, and in 1951 the site welcomed its first blast furnace and coke plant. In 1954, Dofasco was the first company in North America to adopt a basic oxygen furnace, and just a year later management established the Research and Development department to continue inventing new steels and technologies. [Dafasco]Stelco is the current name for The Steel Company of Canada, which was formed "in 1910 via the merger of Montreal Rolling Mills, the Hamilton Steel and Iron Company, and a handful of secondary companies located from Gananoque to Brantford." [stelco]
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| Leonardo Labarbera posted Original picture of dofasco hamilton Wow! Just one battery! Later called #2 battery after additional battery’s added on either side of it. I cant remember exact year but the first coke battery and #1 byproducts was built in early 1950’s... i want to say 1953. |
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| Charging the BOF at Lake Erie Works |
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| David Walker posted Stelco, Lake Erie Works, months after star-up 1980/81. Still producing today. The Blast Furnace was relined in 2020. Coke Ovens Overhaul still in progress. Makes fantastic view at night. Philip Pickles: That coke oven rebuild is way over the original estimated cost.. it has resulted in a squeeze on the Hamilton maintenance budget. |
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| Micahael Hrysko posted Looking eastwards .... Dofasco ., Bayfront area complex |
Mercedez Andrade posted three photos with the comment:
dafasco HamiltonEdit to addUPDATE: Many people shared pics of horrible emissions coming from ArcelorMittal Dofasco on afternoon of Nov. 14. The company sent an email out to Community Liaison Committee members with some details about what happened. Here is the text of that message:Dear CLC Members,There was an incident at the company’s No.2 Caster this afternoon at 1:22 p.m. The caster is where liquid steel is cast into slabs. There was a malfunction in the transfer of the liquid steel into the caster, causing a spill. The area is controlled and secure as of approximately 2:25 p.m.Fortunately, there are no injuries as employees are not allowed in the area for safety reasons.However, the incident resulted in a significant visible emission, likely due to both fire and contact between the liquid steel and water. The company’s Fire Department responded and managed the incident. Hamilton fire also attended for support.The Ontario Ministry of Environment, Parks and Conservation’s Spills Action Centre has been alerted as required.Our teams are on site investigating and further information will be provided if and when available.Best regards,John Lundrigan | General Manager / Director, EnvironmentArcelorMittal DofascoEnvironment Department | Box 2460, 1330 Burlington St. E.Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3J5T 905-548-7200 x6100 | F 905-548-7000 | www.arcelormittal.com | http://dofasco.arcelormittal.comClose your windows, stay inside. Dofasco fire smoke coming your way.
Mike Stamant shared
Mike McTigue: Looks like they did the right thing and got the ladle rotated out and limited damage to the caster.
Rob Kirton: Are they Mittal’s only remaining North American property?
Michael Green: I work about 2 miles down from Dofasco, and its an Arcelor Mittal Long Carbon. We do wire.
Dennis DeBruler: They kept the joint venture in Calvert, AL. And the R&D office in West Chicago.
[The comments indicate the floors are sand to simplify cleanup of the solidified iron. There is a consensus that it was a ladle gate failure.]
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| Debbie Matthews posted Dofasco Steel - Hamilton, ON. In the summer of 2007, Dofasco 416 locomotive pulls 2 loaded hot metal cars from the east side of Number 2 Blast Furnace. Note locomotive is operated by remote control. Jason Spears: Walked down that road many times going between #1 Byproducts and 2/3 BP. Debbie Matthews: Long walk from Gate 10 to #4 BF! |
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| Debbie Matthews posted Dofasco Steel, Hamilton, ON - Ore dock in the summer of 2000 Alistair LaForme: That clam is hauling. John W. Bousfield: Memories of changing buckets from ore to coal. |
Rick Guy Evans posted three photos with the comment: "In Hamilton, two steel companies dominate the harbour...this is the other, with Dofasco's iron ore dock with maintenance being done on the ore bridge."
John Keane: But only one produces any more . Stelco just does galvanizing now of outside sourced.
Mike Chechalk: John Keane all the steel that goes through our Z-line comes from LEW.
James Torgeson: Dofasco is one of the few places remaining where a straight-decker can be unloaded.
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| Rick Guy Evans posted "E" blast furnace sits idle; the last campaign was in '97. Its fate is still unknown. In its day, it produced 400+tons of molten iron in a cast. Mike Chechalk: She set a lot of company records. She had a great life. She gave us a lot of good times and many a bad nights. She made us do things to make sure she lived for another day. Rick Guy Evans: Mike Chechalk in the late '90s, I applied to the "Blower" position on "D" fce(now gone:( )...I spent time there and found that these fce were truly "alive", especially when one "slipped" (scared the beans out of me!) Everyone had to work together, as you were working on a bomb! Eventually, my boss would not release me to change departments. Philip Pickles: US Steal tried unsuccessfully to take our pension money but they did succeed in taking our orders and shutting down the blast furnace .. Larry Hildreth: Not 97, shut down for second (final) time in 2010. Mike Chechalk: Rick Guy Evans During the ‘91 reline stave cooling was installed and the plate cooling was removed. The bricking you refer to is a blow in lining so the stave don’t get damaged during the start up. The ‘97 reline was upgraded to many of the external components of the stoves, stave cooling system, gas cleaning and stock shed. There were also up grades to computer soft and hard ware. The system was also updated so operators could view the operations from other locations in Hilton Works. John Gregory Pittman: It’s being demolished it was the most advanced blast furnace in North America. PCI ( pulverized coke injection with oxygen injection ) Paul Worth top / automated shed / Radarokie Technology from Belgium to monitor the amount of material in furnace to estimate yield / slag popcorn maker a aggregate for cement . Very sad nation wrecking |
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| Rick Guy Evans posted Yet another view of Hilton Works "E" fce from the water. |
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| Rick Guy Evans posted The ironmaking side of Hilton works, with E furnace down and the coke ovens still operating. A crisp day in November, with Aldershot/Burlington in the background just across Hamilton Harbour. Taken from atop the Escarpment (what Hamiltonians refer to as "the mountain"!) John Keane: Soon to be demolished. Except for galvanize. And coke |
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| Rick Guy Evans posted The blue buildings comprise the Cold Rolling & Coating mills in Hilton Works. The tall green box-like tower is #3 Pickle line: 7 stories of vertical acid tower. The temper mill, 4-stand and galv line are one of a few of the mills that still operate in the Cold mill. In the background, is #3 Bloom mill. Mike Chechalk: Is that Acid Regen (Red Hill) in front of the mill. We on the west side of the plant called it Red HILL. Rick Guy Evans: Mike Chechalk to the extreme left(barely noticable)...we in the Pickle lines called it the red barn...horrible place to work, but boy did it make money! Adam Pereira: 3 b&b is owned by mana, they are currently tearing out the mill. Can’t forget Stelco just installed a new batch anneal line at the south end of their cold rolling 4 stand about 2 years ago. All decommissioned mills are being torn down. Joe Grazulis: Vertical acid tower? I wonder how that works. Rick Guy Evans: Joe Grazulis it works well as long as it is maintained with great care...acid is very unforgiving to steel! |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Rick's pickle post Found it. Because of the uniqueness of the pickled tower, I searched for this facility on the peninsula. Rick Guy Evans: Dennis DeBruler wow! I like this picture! Spent 26yrs in most of these buildings here! |
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| Rick Guy Evans posted Speaking of Mesta: 56" hot strip 1946 6-stand Hilton Works...this is my best pic of this moth-balled relic! Pat McCon: Back when there was an operator at every stand! Jeff Sherrill: This is a great picture. Now. In layman’s terms, please explain what goes on. Simple is better… Rick Guy Evans: Jeff Sherrill Oh boy...the short version: 1 1/4" thick steel strip enters 1st stand; is compressed and fed into #2 stand where is compressed more and pulled into #3 stand &is compressed again and pulled through faster until the 6th stand...strip can be about .075" to .057" (thereabouts) and comes out flying to the upcoiler to make a coil of strip. That's the simple explanation...but a lot of things are going on all at the same time. When I left this mill in 2000, it had already been upgraded to have only a couple of operators up in a pulpit, instead of a roller at each roll stand when it was new. Rick Guy Evans: Jeff Sherrill oh yeah: this pic shows #6 stand, which is the exit side of the travel of steel strip, so moving right to left. This is vintage 1933 mill stands: nuclear-proof! Jerry Lacy: Michael Ray Watkins is the slab still 8+inches thick when it goes into these stands or is there an intermediate process? Rick Guy Evans: Jerry Lacy yeah...the rougher, the 110" mill and an edger takes the slab down from about 8-9" to 1 1/4"...then into the coilbox , crop shear and then the 1st mill stand. Phil Jadlowiec: Hamilton Ontario Stelco ? Rick Guy Evans: Phil Jadlowiec yes sir! Dave Demharter: This is the exactly same rolling mill at our plant. (Allegheny Ludlum). Then they built a new mill and dismantled this one. Michael Watchorn: We had a 6 stand in Lorain rolled rounds and squares our stands were all made by united. Rick Guy Evans: Michael Watchorn yeah...United and Dominion were other mill-stand producers. |
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| Rick Guy Evans posted, cropped One of the trinkets (coaster) that Hilton Works handed out to all the plant workers when the Continuous Caster's first successful pour of first slab on Aug25,'87.(my 21st birthday and 10 yrs in Stelco!) Today [Nov 15, 2021], they are razing the caster to the ground: 34 years later. |
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| Rick Guy Evans posted Sadly, I have only one pic of Stelco's last two blast fces together: "E" on the left and "D" on the right. They are both gone now. |
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| Ryan Cranston commented on Rick's post [According to the comments, E was scheduled to come down Dec 8, 2021] Rick Guy Evans: Ryan Cranston Wow! Do you know the date D came down? Terry MacDougall: Rick Guy Evans "D" came down just after Stelco first went into bankruptcy protection. The market had turned around and there was a shortage of steel supply. I heard that Dofasco (not sure if it was still called Dofasco) wanted to rent and run "D". Stelco said no that we are tearing it down - this in bankruptcy protection and our wonderful government allowed the demolition to still happen."D" Furnace was in excellent condition, many, many years away from a reline. It was just banked and could have very easily been put ahead. "D" was the better furnace. "E" only out-produced it, due to having the ability to continuously cast, as "E" had two cast houses. "D" was designed with two cast houses in mind. It already possessed the second cast hole; if they'd have built the second cast house, "D" Furnace would have out-produced "E" Furnace again. BTW, just as an interesting point, and proof of God... I fell off of the top of "D" Furnace when I was much younger. We were packing the bleeders - Jay Joseph and myself. Jay was tapping a chisel, under the baked asbestos packing, while I was pulling on the packing. Jay had the chisel on a bad angle and cut through the packing that I was pulling on. I fell straight back over the side of the furnace - no safety harnesses used in those days. I was standing straight up when I went over. This is one of the things that saved me. Three levels down, the furnace widened out a bit, and my boot heal hit the handrail for the walkway. I slid down legs rubbing hard on the inside of the handrail onto the walkway. A sixteenth inch farther out, and the handrail would have slipped from the heal of my boot onto my boot sole, and I would have slipped to the outside of the handrail. The next stop would have been a smoldering red hot slag pit. This would not have been my preferred way of leaving this life! LOL When I climbed back up to the bleeder platform packing still in my hand, our Forman Gerry Boyd and Jay Joseph were still frozen and white in shock. I was the one, who fell and they were the ones, who were injured. It took me a while to get them to snap out of it. All they could see was me disappearing over the side of the furnace. Jay could not go back on top of the furnaces again. I don't think that he ever did. Me - no problem. LOL Harold L. Orr: What is the round tank? ShawnandDebby Arlow: Harold L. Orr I believe they are Grain storage for Bunge. [Parrish and Heimbecker, Limited] |
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| Rick Guy Evans posted A view of the skip hoist and dust catcher on "D" blast fce, circa '94/''95 at Hilton Works. |
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| Cody Lee commented on Rick's post For anybody not familiar with Stelco's furnace setup, a map. |
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| Cody Lee commented on Rick's post From a fly over this summer, 2021. Taken by me. |
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| Mike Schymkiw posted ALGOMARINE at Dofasco, Port of Hamilton, December 2010... |
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| Eliya Radusin posted One of the old pictures at Dofasco of our Open Hearth. |
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| Andy Puskas commented on a post My Dad as a Rougher at the 20" Mill at Stelco in Hamilton, Ontario. Did that job for 44 1/2 years. That picture of my Dad was taken in the '80's. No face protection, no hearing protection, no gloves. It was another world! |
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| Mike Schreiber posted Are blooms same as ingots? [No. Ingots used to be rolled into blooms in a blooming mill before they invented how to continuous cast blooms. "A typical cross-section of a bloom as 'square or slightly oblong mostly in the range of 6" by 6" to 12" x 12".'" Before continuous casting, blooms where then rolled into billets. Now, if the smaller cross sections of a billet is needed, they cast that cross-section instead of a bloom cross-section. At USS, at least, the difference between a bloom and a billet was 36 square inches. An ingot could also be rolled into a slab which could proceed to heavy plate or coiled strips.] Carl Jacobson: This photo is of the ingot mould being stripped off a drag of steel ingots.These are relatively small ingots and not too wide, they are probably going to be rolled into bars. They would have been reheated in a Soaking Pit and then rolled by a Blooming Mill. If the finished bar was 36 square inches on the end, it would be a Bloom. At the USS plant where I worked, the Bloom could continue on down the roller table without reheating and be rolled into smaller bars by another rolling process called a Billet Mill. The smaller bars, under 36 square inches on the end are called Billets. Many mills had to reheat the Blooms to roll them into Billets.Wider ingots would usually rolled by the Blooming Mill into slabs. Those slabs are technically also Blooms, because they are over 36 square inches on the end. Usually the slabs would be reheated and rolled into coils on a Hot Strip Mill. Lee Bradshaw: "bloom" is a size: Wire - narrow strip Rod - coil Bar - sheet Billet - sheet Bloom - slab Ingot I think 🤔 |
D Eric Davis posted five photos of a mechanical press in National Steel Car which was owned by Dofasco in Hamilton, ON.
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(new window) This video consists of a bunch of close up scenes that don't mean much to me. But at 1:55 it shows the pusher shoving the contents of a camber to the other side. And at 2:25 it shows the door of a camber being closed. I can't believe they didn't show the coke coming out of a chamber and falling into the hot car. At 2:37 we see the coke in a hot car on the way to the quenching tower, and at 2:39 we see the steam coming out of the tower at the start of a quench
(new window) Skip the first minute, it is just intro. The #3 coke plant is at 6:30. (source)
(new window) This video consists of a bunch of close up scenes that don't mean much to me. But at 1:55 it shows the pusher shoving the contents of a camber to the other side. And at 2:25 it shows the door of a camber being closed. I can't believe they didn't show the coke coming out of a chamber and falling into the hot car. At 2:37 we see the coke in a hot car on the way to the quenching tower, and at 2:39 we see the steam coming out of the tower at the start of a quench
(new window) Skip the first minute, it is just intro. The #3 coke plant is at 6:30. (source)
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| safe_image for 2:17 YouTube Video safe_image for Controlled explosion demolishes Stelco’s last blast furnace |
I chose this view because we can still see the dock side equipment. Notice the unloading boom has already moved towards the unloading position.
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| 5:49 video @ 2:17 EDWIN H. GOTT - ARRIVAL /TACONITE OFFLOAD - NANTICOKE, ONTARIO (MAY 25/2021) |
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A 0:32 video overview from someplace high. Unfortunately, it is in profile format.
Steve Hinds: I'm guessing the top of #6 Battery waste heat stack.
7 1990s photos of "D" BF (Taken with a junk disposable camera so that he would not loose his good camera if caught.)
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