I was showing an old church in Pittsburgh's South Side, a community that was once the heart
of the steel mill district and is now an ultra-hip spot.
For her project Notion of Family, the artist LaToya Ruby Frazier (American, born 1982) photographed herself and her family whose «lives parallel the rise and fall
of the steel mill industry» in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh.
The same goes for the inside
of the steel mill; besides a few key rooms everything looked completely different after Haley Quinn's decorating.
A report released by the German Office for Information Security at the end of December describes how hackers infiltrated the network
of a steel mill to cause «massive», though unspecified, damage.
The only remaining seats were in the very front row, directly in front of a huge, rectangular, mesh - fronted black box, from which poured the combined sounds
of a steel mill, a chicken farm and a day - care center, accompanied by a lone violin.
He also happened to be the managing director
of a steel mill, where I worked for two summers.
Secretary Wilbur Ross released reports on the U.S. Department of Commerce's investigations into the impact on our national security from imports
of steel mill products and...
Launched in April 2017, Section 232 is the U.S. Department of Commerce's investigation into the effect
of steel mill products and wrought and unwrought aluminum imports on national security.
He worries about the loss
of steel mills that are, or were, job anchors in certain Rust Belt communities.
Those views are largely predicated on three factors: higher borrowing costs; increasing curbs on home buying to cool soaring prices; and government - mandated shutdowns
of some steel mills and factories in coming months to reduce winter air pollution.
Another factor is the re-opening ahead of the peak construction period in spring and early summer
of steel mills in China that were shut down last year.
The bullish export statistics come despite scores
of steel mills and other industrials in China being shut down or operating below full capacity since early November as part of China's attempts to curb air pollution during the nation's winter months.
The industrial revolution established Pittsburgh's maker community within a landscape
of steel mills driven by a rugged blue - collar work ethic.
The sludge - gray Onandaga River divided the city as it met Lake Erie beneath a steel bridge: the valley carved by the river was a treeless expanse of railroad tracks, boxcars, refineries, cranes, chemical plants, and, looming over all of this, the smokestacks
of the steel mills — squat, black, and enormous — on which Steelton's existence had once depended.
Why don't these folks just get it over with and starting siting inside
of steel mills next to the blast furnaces?
My parents, and for a while, I, grew up within the sights and smells
of the steel mills in Cleveland Ohio.
Not exact matches
When workers at a
steel mill in Dongguan rioted after learning about a new round
of job losses, the mob beat a senior manager to death.
Indeed, some so - called rural villages in China boast
steel mills and factories, while one, Beishanmen, near the city
of Xi'an, recently erected a 23 - storey apartment tower.
Likewise, according to a report by Pivot Capital Management that analyzed China's manufacturing capabilities, China continues to build new
steel mills, cement factories and aluminum smelters even though up to one - third
of existing plants sit idle.
Coils
of steel on trains in front
of the ThyssenKrupp
steel mill in Duisburg, Germany.
In November, the city declared that it was completely free
of steel production after authorities inspected the last remaining
mill and determined that it had been officially closed.
When it's finished, an engineer will be able to walk right over to the manufacturing floor and see a rocket engine
milled from a piece
of stainless
steel or a fuel tank formed from giant sheets
of aluminum.
But the nostalgic desire he's expressing here,
of wanting to keep communities the way they once were, with a
steel mill to work in and a mall to shop at, clearly resonates with a slice
of the electorate.
It doesn't hurt that Trump has friends with relevant business interests that would benefit from the protection
of the status quo, whether those are ownership stakes in
steel mills or shopping malls.
Coils
of steel stand on trains in front
of the ThyssenKrupp
steel mill on March 5, 2018 in Duisburg, Germany.
Returning from Vietnam, Parsons worked for a year in a Baltimore
steel mill before attending the University
of Baltimore on the G.I. Bill.
After playing a two - year game
of chicken with management, bondholders forced the company to wipe out shareholders and legally separate the Lake Erie operation — the most modern integrated
steel plant in North America — from the Hamilton
mill and its related obligations.
Smaller bioreactors
of this kind are already in operation at a cement plant and a
steel mill in Ontario.
Its ever growing array
of profitable enterprises includes shipyards, banks, hotels, an oil refinery, and even a small
steel mill.
Some
steel mills, smelters and chemical plants have cranked up output ahead
of curbs on production or outright shutdowns.
Over the past 12 months, prices have increased 19 % on
steel mill products, 17 % on copper and brass
mill shapes, 7.6 % on gypsum products like wallboard and plaster, and 7.3 % on lumber and plywood, according to data released last week by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
The possible county locations suggested for Amazon included: the Tradepoint Atlantic redevelopment
of an old
steel mill in Sparrows Point; the mixed - use Baltimore Crossroads development near White Marsh and the Spring Grove Hospital Center campus in Catonsville.
The price
of hot - rolled
steel coil, the benchmark product, is down about 40 percent this year, with domestic
mills idling as much as 38 percent
of capacity after imports climbed by 38 percent in 2014.
Alcohol, tobacco, laundry detergent, dish soap, chocolate... done right, a business in an area such as these can make a lot
of money without constantly having to make large capital expenditures the same way a
steel mill might require.
Furthermore, Arcelor could probably ramp up production at its U.S.
steel mills to avoid the bulk
of those tariffs that would otherwise hurt its sales.
The bridge, discussions for which began in 2008, could reduce the distance
of transporting iron ore from the Jewish Autonomous Republic in the Russian Far East to Chinese
steel mills from 646 to 145 miles.
BEIJING China's city
of Handan has ordered
steel mills to cut production by around 25 percent as part
of new measures to curb pollution from April to mid-November, according to a statement on Friday.
The crisis engulfing the global
steel industry is so severe that one
of China's top producers has warned a new Ice Age has set in as
mills confront overcapacity and Continue Reading
From the Chinese standpoint, a
steel mill or a semiconductor fabrication plant are public goods — the Chinese look at these things the way we look at highways and airports... America has been pushed out
of any major capital - intensive manufacturing.
Ecosteel USA, a construction and engineering firm and building supplier, is proposing a $ 240 million
steel mill complex on about 124 acres
of county - owned...
The
steel industry has shed hundreds
of thousands
of jobs in the country in the past two decades, partly because
of automation and partly because
of a flood
of production from China, which has driven down global prices to a level where some American
mills can not compete.
A lot
of my relatives worked in the
steel mills.
Moore worked at a Texas
steel mill in the late 1970s, when there were plenty
of steel jobs that paid the equivalent
of $ 30 an hour.
But Chinese
steel production didn't slow down in response — creating a glut
of steel in the global marketplace that lowered prices and threatened
steel mills across the globe.
Low demand for
steel and decades
of automation are the main reasons jobs at American
steel mills are disappearing, and no amount
of tariffs on
steel can change that tide, economists told me.
Premier Rachel Notley met with
steel workers during a tour
of the Tenaris Prudential welded pipe
mill in Calgary on Feb. 8, 2018.
In the entire job market, «you're not going to lose 100,000 jobs because
of people not adding [jobs] to
steel and aluminum
mills.»
That statement may come as a surprise to non-UK readers, many
of whom might well be forgiven for thinking the country's
steel mills had gone the way
of other legacy industries such as coal mining and shipbuilding.
Steel mills may not be able to easily or cheaply convert their facilities to produce different kinds
of components previously made abroad.
A glut
of Russian metal put the local
steel mill out
of business.