by DCN » September 30, 2020, 5:32 pm
There are actually a few more integrated mills outside of the Great Lakes region. U.S. Steel, besides the aforementioned Edgar Thomson Works (part of the larger Mon Valley Works) around Pittsburgh, PA, has the Granite City Works in Granite City, IL (across the Mississippi River from St. Louis). While Cliffs through their previous purchase of AK Steel has integrated works in Middletown, OH (north of Cincinnati), and the shut down but largely intact Ashland Works in Ashland, KY. Cliffs will now also have ArcelorMittals Riverdale Works in Riverdale, IL. This is on the Little Calumet River and not accessible by lake boat. This is an interesting mill as it produces steel in basic oxygen furnaces as is done at most integrated mills, however this mill does not have its own supply of hot metal from a blast furnace, instead it imports it in railroad torpedo ladle cars from other blast furnaces in the Chicago area. Originally this mill had several cupola furnaces for melting scrap to supply the hot metal but they have been gone for decades.
DCN
There are actually a few more integrated mills outside of the Great Lakes region. U.S. Steel, besides the aforementioned Edgar Thomson Works (part of the larger Mon Valley Works) around Pittsburgh, PA, has the Granite City Works in Granite City, IL (across the Mississippi River from St. Louis). While Cliffs through their previous purchase of AK Steel has integrated works in Middletown, OH (north of Cincinnati), and the shut down but largely intact Ashland Works in Ashland, KY. Cliffs will now also have ArcelorMittals Riverdale Works in Riverdale, IL. This is on the Little Calumet River and not accessible by lake boat. This is an interesting mill as it produces steel in basic oxygen furnaces as is done at most integrated mills, however this mill does not have its own supply of hot metal from a blast furnace, instead it imports it in railroad torpedo ladle cars from other blast furnaces in the Chicago area. Originally this mill had several cupola furnaces for melting scrap to supply the hot metal but they have been gone for decades.
DCN