Latrobe Specialty Steel: (Satellite)
From the comments, I learned about the Latrobe Specialty Metals is just a mile away. They had been owned by Timken.
Any steel mills that still exist are worthy of some notes.
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| Randy Wolfe shared Jackson-Township historical preservation's photo This is a photograph of the Latrobe Forge & Spring Company (now Lehigh Specialty Melting Inc.) in Latrobe, Westmoreland County. Judging by the automobiles, this was taken sometime in the 1940's. In this photo, Ligonier Street is visible along with the future site of Legion-Keener Park.
(Photo from Jim SpfxGuy Gracie via https://www.facebook.com/groups/264786553532180/ )Hayden Cox: I currently work there. The spring shop building which is in the foreground has since been removed. Mike Haught: Steel Mills and Foundry’s use to be so much more of a community. Notice the ball fields. Industrial baseball leagues use the be the norm. My previous employer, ACIPCO, use to have such a baseball program. An old friend was actually hired because he was such a good ball player. Management later found him found him a job. He later became one of the most respected safety managers in Alabama. Rest In Peace Erwin Lobler. |
From the comments, I learned about the Latrobe Specialty Metals is just a mile away. They had been owned by Timken.
Lehigh Specialty Melting: "Located in Latrobe, PA, and in operation for more than 100 years, LSM specializes in the melting of vacuum degassed, argon shrouded carbon and alloy steel ingots for a variety of applications....Our products include smooth and corrugated ingot sizes of 13″ diameter to 63″ diameter and weights from 5,700 lbs. to 79,500 lbs. each." [whemco] "The Latrobe facility has a long history of quality steelmaking in Western Pennsylvania. The plant, founded in 1888 as the Latrobe Steel Company, has a proven history of providing quality steel products, and excellent customer service for over 110 years." [ismelting]
Latrobe Specialty Steel: In 2011 Carpenter Technology Corp. bought LSS for $558m. [bizjournals] "Founded by Marcus Saxman Sr. with Charles Guttzeit and other Latrobe-area businessmen [in 1913], the Ligonier Street location was first named the Latrobe Electric Steel Company. It revolutionized American steel making with North America’s first electric arc furnace, a six-ton Heroult model. Through the years, the company transformed the steel industry and, in the 1950s, made the decision to adopt vacuum arc remelting or VAR technology to produce high-purity steel for aerospace customers. Latrobe’s alloys can be found on military jets and rotor craft. The Latrobe location’s calling card over the years has been its VIM-VAR special melting processes, which melts metal under vacuum conditions using electromagnetic induction. It works by creating electrical eddy currents in the metal, which heats the 'charge' to melt it." They built the world's largest vacuum induction melting furnace in 2009. It was a 65,000-sq-ft, 70' tall VIM-VAR, $60m expansion. Timken Steel owned the company between 1975 and 2006. [LatrobeBulletinNews]
All of the railroad tracks in this town were Pennsylvania.
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And I also learned about City Brewing.
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If you know where this plant was, please leave the location in the comments.
Wm R. LaDow posted two images.
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