The story of Pittsburgh: Iron and steel (continued)

Iron and steel (continued) (Vol. 1, nr. 3)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831622939

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239748

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Title:: Iron and steel (continued)

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 3

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1920

Scope:: [ca. 34] Seiten

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AMERICAN STEEL COMPANY The American Steel Company was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania in 1904 and capitalized at $3,000- 300. Its tin plate mill is located at Waynesburg and its wire and nail mill at Ellwood City. About 2,000 workers are employed in the manufacture of tin plate, black sheets, wire, wire nails and other wire products. The Company produces annually 400,000 boxes of base tin plate, while the nail and wire mill tonnage is about 40,000 tons a year. The mills of this concern are electrically equipped through- out. The foreign shipments of the Company have in- creased enormously in the last few years, going to all parts of the world. It issues catalogues in Spanish, French and Portuguese, as well as in the English language. Additional buildings are now in process of erection which will double the capacity of both the Waynesburg and Ellwood City plants. AMERICAN STEEL & WIRE COMPANY In the Pittsburgh district of the American Steel & Wire Company, both Bessemer and open hearth ingots are pro- duced. The ingots are rolled into blooms, slabs and billets. Blooms are shipped to other companies for further rolling into axles and other shapes and slabs for rolling into plates. Billets form the raw material for the company’s own rod mills, in which they are rolled into wire rods, chiefly used for drawing into wire at its own plants, but a portion of this product is shipped to other companies for the same purpose, or for conversion into chain, rivets, bolts, etc. Much of this is coated with zinc (‘galvanized’) and the wire so coated is sold to other makers of barbed wire, woven fencing and poultry netting. Much of it is converted into these forms in the company’s own plants. Wire which is not galvanized is cut into nails or formed nto hoops. It is also converted into many other forms, such as bale ties, springs, wire rope, etc. Part of the steel made In Pittsburgh in the form of billets is rolled elsewhere

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