The Mill Newsletter Volume 2 Number 2 and Steel Mill Modeling Catalog

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The Mill Newsletter Volume 2 Number 2

http://www.smm.stahlbahn.de/themillvol2num2.pdf

Steel Mill Modeling Catalog

http://www.smm.stahlbahn.de/SteelMillCatalog.pdf

Take Care, Stay Safe, Happy Modeling, and God Bless.

Schuylkill Ironworks is offering steel mill cars.

The Schuylkill Ironworks is offering several steel mill cars for purchase, and they are made exclusively for us by Funaro and Camerlengo. The first car is a Treadwell slag car for $29.00. Next are three versions of the Pacific Car and Foundry flat car, the riveted deck, the rail deck and the I beam deck cars, and they are $24 each. Mix and match for shipping, one to three cars for $7.12 and four to ten cars for $9.50. You can PayPal us at eacraig@gmail.com or send a check to Eric Craig, PO Box 3678, Reading PA 19606

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ATI Investing $95M in Isothermal Forging Capacity

Allegheny Technologies Inc. directors approved a $95-million capital investment project to expand the isothermal forging and heat-treating capacities in Cudahy, WI, to address growing demand from the aerospace jet engine market. The three-year project will establish ATI’s fourth isothermal press at that location, which ATI acquired in 2011 as part of its takeover of Ladish Co. Inc. (Brooks, R, March 22, 2018, Forging Magazine, Forging)(Retrieved from http://www.forgingmagazine.com/forming/ati-investing-95m-isothermal-forging-capacity?NL=FORG-01&Issue=FORG-01_20180404_FORG-01_202&sfvc4enews=42&cl=article_3&utm_rid=CPG03000003596575&utm_campaign=25783&utm_medium=email&elq2=49ebf750404847ff95ee3a7131707d3c)

Last Active Open-Hearth Furnace Tapped For Last Time.

The last active open-hearth furnace in OMK Vyksa steelworks (Russia) was tapped for the very last time. The furnace was commissioned in 1933.

https://www.viktormacha.com/galerie/vmz-vyksa-342/

The Mill Newsletter (Dean Freytag Issue)

There are plans on doing a special issue of The Mill with pictures of Dean Freytag's layout. This issues will be different from all the other issues the released dated is undetermined.

Right now I have a couple sources for pictures but I'm looking for this to be a joint effort with anyone who wants to contribute. So I ask anyone and everyone here if you have pictures or know of anyone that has pictures of Dean Freytag's layout that is willing to have them shared please have them contact me.

If anyone who has a story they would like to share that they have with Dean that they would consider having put in this issues, please send it.

This issue will also include a list of all articles, other publication, and videos that Dean did.

I'm also looking for any and all suggestion on this issue.

This issue will be a free PDF download to anyone that wants a copy once it is completed.

My email is don_csx@hotmail.com

Take Care, Stay Safe and God Bless

Grandt Line Products is closing after 60 years

Sad to hear but Grandt Line Products is closing after 60 years. 

Grandt Line Products

Coke Oven model by Daniel Milcher

Daniel Milcher,  a new of the Steel Mill Modeling group share pictures of a coke oven he built in 6 months. This oven is models after a prototype that stood in his hometown in 1944 and was heavily bombed but was never rebuild. The model is roughly 6ft long and the chimney is 3ft high. All pictures are by Daniel Milchar

Steel Mill Modeling

Another new member Floris Dilz of the Steel Mill Facebook Group share some pictures of an HO scale mill. This mill has amazing details including scratch built locomotives.

Steel Mill Modeling

A new member of the Steel Mill Modeling Facebook group Heinz Helm has been showing some pictures of the HO scale steel mill he has been working on. The details of his mill are unbelievable.

Bethlehem Steel Mill Pictures

This site contains some great shots of Bethlehem Steel. Below is one of many pictures from the site.

http://www.invisiblethreads.com/galleries/bethlehem-steel-mill

USS to Restart Granite City Works (B) Blast Furnace

PITTSBURGH, March 07, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- United States Steel Corporation (NYSE:X) announced today it will restart one of two blast furnaces (“B” blast furnace) and the steelmaking facilities at its Granite City Works, an integrated steelmaking plant in Granite City, Ill.  The additional capacity will support anticipated increased demand for steel in the United States from the pending action announced by President Donald J. Trump on March 1, 2018, as a result of the U.S. Department of Commerce Section 232 national security investigation on steel imports.

“Our Granite City Works facility and employees, as well as the surrounding community, have suffered too long from the unending waves of unfairly traded steel products that have flooded U.S. markets,” said U. S. Steel President and Chief Executive Officer David B. Burritt.  “The Section 232 action announced by President Trump last week recognizes the significant threat steel imports pose to our national and economic security.  The President’s strong leadership is needed to begin to level the playing field so companies like ours can compete, win and create jobs that support our employees and the communities in which we operate as well as strengthen our national and economic security.  We will continue to support our customers with the high-quality products they have come to expect from U. S. Steel.”

The company anticipates calling back approximately 500 employees beginning this month.  The restart process could take up to four months.

“We’ve worked closely and cooperatively with leadership of the United Steelworkers to develop a plan that will help us work through the restart process in the safest, most efficient manner possible while enabling longer-term collaboration designed to improve the plant’s competitiveness,” Burritt said.  “We appreciate and thank the USW leadership and membership for their passionate efforts around the Section 232 investigation as well as in support of the restart process at Granite City Works.  Together, we are committed to ensuring the steel industry remains a fundamental part of American manufacturing because American manufacturing is stronger with American-made steel.”

The company expects to provide information on the anticipated financial impact of the restart as more details on the President’s executive order become available for analysis in the coming days.

Both Granite City Works blast furnaces and its steelmaking facilities were idled in December 2015 and the plant’s hot strip mill was idled in January 2016 in response to challenging market conditions, including global excess steel capacity and unfairly traded imports.  The pickle line, cold mill and finishing lines at Granite City Works continued to operate in line with customer demand.  The hot strip mill was restarted in February 2017 as the company adjusted its hot strip mill operating configuration to meet customer needs after deciding to accelerate the pace of its asset revitalization efforts.  Granite City's “A” blast furnace remains idled. (NA, March 7, 2018, United States Steel to Restart Granite City Works Blast Furnace, Steelmaking Facilities)(Retrieved from http://www.euroinvestor.com/news/2018/03/07/united-states-steel-to-restart-granite-city-works-blast-furnace-steelmaking-facilities/13778969 )

Ghost Rails X Second Printing

Wayne Cole on getting a second release of Ghost Rails X printed. Wayne is now taking orders!! Just print out this form and mail it (USPS) with a check or money order. Also, please note the VERY generous offer at the bottom of a joint purchase of Ghost Rails X and XII for just $100!! 

There are only 100 copies of the reprint available. 

Click on this link to download the order form. 

Ghost Rails Order Form

American Iron and Steel Institute

American Iron and Steel Institute, by Hegley Digital Archives.

These images are from all over the country and are from all parts of the steel industry from all eras. Most are in black and white, but to see pictures of how blast furnace looked in the 1800s compared to today's furnaces are astonishing.

Title: Steel-works viewed from across the Lehigh River, Bethlehem Steel Company (South Bethlehem, Pa.)

Note: Blast furnaces A and B as they appeared for most of the first half of the 20th century.

In the right foreground is the original crucible shop building. The company office building is to the right rear.

 American Iron and Steel Institute, Hegley Digital Archives

Stay Safe, Take Care, Happy Modeling, and God Bless. 

Steelmaking in Bethlehem, PA., The Final Years

Steel Making in Bethlehem PA. The Final Years is a 22pg booklet is available at the Steel Stack Visitor Center for $4:50. It is written by John Lovis and edited by Ann Bartholomew.

There's a lot of information in this little booklet from information to early operation in the early 1990's to many photos with descriptions and a couple of maps of the mill.  

Pig Iron at Lorain Mill expected by end of 2018

Article from:

The Morning News Journal, Pig Iron at Lorain Mil expected by end of 2018

One of Republic Steel’s blast furnaces could fire again in Lorain, according to a company that hopes to make pig iron there.

Lorain Pig Iron LLC on Feb. 21 announced it is “engaging technical service providers necessary to review and submit proposals for the recommissioning of Republic Steel’s Blast Furnace 4,” known as BF4 in Lorain.

The company, known as LPI, is a jointly owned operation of Republic Steel and ERP Iron Ore LLC. LPI announced it expects to commence production of pig iron at BF4 by the end of the year.

“LPI seeks to introduce a new beginning in U.S. steelmaking, where its U.S. blast furnaces will provide pig iron for the growing production of ‘electric arc furnace’ steel and foundries,” the company announcement said. “LPI will fully integrate its affiliated metallurgical coal mines, coke batteries and iron ore mines as it proudly reintroduces merchant pig iron production to North America.”

The announcement referred to blast furnaces and electric arc furnaces, the heating methods for refining iron and other raw materials for use.

The blast furnace will be recommissioned in partnership with the United Steel Workers and is expected to produce and distribute more than 1 million tons of pig iron a year to customers in the United States, according to Lorain Pig Iron LLC.

The company announced it is negotiating agreements with Republic Steel and other groups for the recommissioning and use of BF 4.

Lorain Pig Iron LLC will start evaluating the recommissioning of Republic Steel’s Blast Furnace 3, or BF 3, which could increase production of pig iron in Lorain to more than 2 million tons a year.

The announcement served as a follow-up to the companies’ agreement in summer 2017.

In July last year, Republic Steel and ERP Iron Ore LLC announced their memorandum of understanding to partner on producing up to 1 million net tons of pig iron a year at Republic Steel’s Lorain mill.

The joint venture will serve the increasing demand for virgin iron required to produce steel in the electric arc furnace, or EAF, sector, according to the companies’ statement from July 2017.

ERP Iron Ore announced it would send iron ore pellets to Lorain via rail from its plant in Reynolds, Indiana, which was built at a cost of more than $400 million, according to the companies.

Republic Steel made regional news in 2011 when the company announced plans for a new electric arc furnace, an $85 million addition that was expected to create almost 450 jobs at its Lorain mill.

In November 2013, production was delayed due to fire at the mill.

The company restarted the furnace, but by early 2016, economic conditions hurt Republic Steel and idled the Lorain mill. (Payerchin, R. (2018, Feb. 27) Republic Steel's Lorain Plant. Morning Journal File) (Retrieved from http://www.morningjournal.com/article/MJ/20180227/NEWS/180229566 )