PENNSYLVANIA STEEL CO history

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977.

By the early 1980’s, with sales and inventory growing, Joe identified Cold Finished Bars as a product with the demand that extended well beyond the Philadelphia marketplace.

He received his undergraduate education at Princeton, and earned a doctorate in political science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1984.

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988.

The Cambria Ironworks was listed as a National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service in 1989, and remains the only American steel mill to have received this designation.

Bethlehem Steel’s Steelton plant – and its man­agement and labor forces­ – looks forward to its sesquicentennial anniversary in 1992 of the mill where “the age of steel” began.

Due to technological advances, foreign competition, failed market strategies and union demands, Bethlehem Steel was forced to cease production on November 18, 1995.

In 2000, Pittsburgh had the second oldest demographic profile of any United States metropolitan county, behind Dade County, FL. Despite a static population, by the mid-20th century, good jobs in Pittsburgh’s heavy industry manufacturing sector remained plentiful.

In 2001 the corporation filed for bankruptcy protection, and two years later it—along with more than 20 of its subsidiaries, including Bethlehem Rail, Greenwood Mining, and Chicago Cold Rolling—was dissolved and its assets sold.

Is this how people who worked for Bethlehem Steel envisioned it would end? No, it’s not.” In 2003, The Philadelphia Inquirer also relayed that Bethlehem Steel sold its assets to International Steel Group Inc. of Cleveland for $1.5 billion.

The New England Division was opened as a green-field operation in the summer of 2005, further extending the geographic marketplace.

In September of 2011, Schwartz Steel, a 40-year-old Carbon Bar Specialist in Gastonia NC was acquired and became the North Carolina Division.

Shortly thereafter, in February of 2012, the Richmond VA Division was founded on the purchase of the Winchester Metals, located in Powhatan VA. In November of 2012, Metal Connections, an Aluminum Plate specialist in Long Island, NY, was acquired and became the Long Island Division.

2016 began with the acquisition of Erie Metals, a cold finished bar specialist in Berea Ohio.

The Pittsburgh marketplace was opened for business in 2017.

Now you simply can’t talk about former Pennsylvania steel towns in 2018 without mentioning President Donald Trump.

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