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for $ 80.81 million in June 2018. The mill, now operated as JSW Steel Ohio, began melting and casting steel that
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Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel.
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and scrap in the company's steelmaking decreasing its need for coke. All 288 employees at the facility will be offered positions within
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Steubenville South, supplanting the blast furnace still in use there. The EAF made its first heat in November 2004, and the remaining blast furnace of Steubenville North was idled along with the rest of that facility in May 2005.
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that the upgrade of the electric arc furnace had been completed, the mill would restart the following week. The mill is now capable of producing 12 inch mini-slabs for JSW Steel's pipe and plate facility in
Baytown, Texas.
273:, adjacent to Beech Bottom Works, manufactured expanded metal, metal lath, and accessories. It also produced Steelcrete bank vaults, reinforced mesh for buildings, stair treads, partitions, and miscellaneous items.
409:, the owner and operator of the facility since its acquisition of AK Steel in 2020, announced that it would permanently close Mountain State Carbon in the second quarter of 2022, citing the increased usage of
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