Many of the mills in and around Pittsburgh shuttered, but Northwest Indiana's hulking steel mills survived because the Great Lakes ports offered easy access to iron ore mined in Minnesota and ...
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Part of one of Northwest Indiana's oldest and biggest steel mills along the Lake Michigan lakefront is being sold off for redevelopment. Investment firm buys and plans to redevelop former bar mill ...
The project plans to create pellets from plastic waste that will be used in steel mills, McCrady said. ... Northwest Indiana organizations are also concerned about the use of plastic pellets ...
In 2011, Burns Harbor and Indiana Harbor, the two northwest Indiana mills now owned by Cliffs, and U.S. Steel's Gary Works were responsible for more than 95% of the 224 tons of unregulated toxic ...
Northwest Indiana's steel industry continues to have a major impact, contributing more than $18 billion to the economy and employing more than 24,000 workers, a new study found.
NORTHWEST INDIANA - Indiana continues to lead the nation in steel production. Our partners at The Times of Northwest Indiana report Indiana produced …
Much of the steel made in Indiana occurs at the massive integrated steel mills that ring Lake Michigan's South Shore in Northwest Indiana. Cleveland-Cliffs and U.S. Steel's mills in Northwest ...
Purdue University Northwest's (PNW) Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) along with industrial, education, federal, and elected leaders gathered Oct. 11 to recognize a significant grant of nearly $10 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office to …
Indiana's steel production remains below pre-pandemic levels, however. The state made 24.7 million tons of steel in 2019, but Cleveland-Cliffs and U.S. Steel have …
About the U.S. Steel Photograph Collection: The Digital Library Program is proud to present the U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection, a series of more than 2,200 photographs of the Gary Works steel mill and the corporate town of Gary, Indiana held by the Calumet Regional Archives at Indiana University Northwest.
Northwest Indiana emerged as the national leader of integrated steel production because of its strategic location on the Great Lakes, where it can cheaply …
Locally, steel mills in the Great Lakes region, clustered mainly along the south shore of Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana, made 555,000 tons of metal in the week that ended Nov. 4, down from ...
Northwest Indiana's steel mills are threatened by newer steel mills like Big River Steel in Arkansas, which is expanding its automotive steel production and using newer technology to produce lower ...
The largest concentration of steel mills and their associated support industries are in the Chicago and Northwest Indiana region. This title closely examines the steel industry in and around that area, with complete coverage of the locomotives, specialty cars, and facilities that help to make steel and its byproducts.
Currently, over 20% of the nation's steel is made in northwest Indiana. Despite all the rumors and speculation, Ennis said there are high expectations that the …
According to its website, Burns Harbor is Cleveland-Cliffs' second-largest U.S. facility and is a steelmaking facility located on Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana, 50 miles southeast of ...
The EPA wants to cut emissions from leaks and equipment malfunctions at steel mills. Advocates say the proposal, while welcome, is far from enough. ... Indiana has 100 years of lead buildup ...
Northwest Indiana's steel mills have long been a source of toxic pollution. Although the Biden administration has recently proposed regulations, they fall short of delivering a comprehensive solution.
As recently as 1969, employment in the steel mills accounted for nearly 30 percent of total local employment in northwest Indiana, but only 0.8 percent in the U.S. as a whole. By December 2002, those percentages had declined to 8 percent in northwest Indiana and less than 0.2 percent in the nation.
Steel Mills, Gary, Indiana, 1913 Description: Founded in 1906 as a steel town in Lake County, Indiana, Gary was named for Elbert H. Gary, principal founder of the United States Steel Corporation. Located on the south shore of Lake Michigan 30 miles east of Chicago, the Gary Land Company, a U.S. Steel subsidiary, laid out a city plan and began ...
The hydrogen could then be used at local steel mills to cut down on carbon emissions. "Today's announcement marks the very beginning of a new era in steel production," said Cleveland-Cliffs Cliffs' Chairman, President and CEO Lourenco Goncalves. ... "Given the historical generations of Northwest Indiana's incredible …
Steelworker dies after incident at Northwest Indiana steel mill. Joseph S. Pete Sep 17, 2022 Sep 17, 2022 Updated Oct 23, 2023; 0; Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor in East Chicago is shown. ...
Waves of consolidations have put the Region's mills into the hands of just two companies: U.S. Steel and Cleveland-Cliffs, a longtime iron ore miner that didn't even make steel three
Northwest Steel Fab, Inc offers complete steel fabrication and sophisticated coatings service. Our Company specializes in the fields of hydro-electric, oil, gas, commercial building and industrial plant fabrication as well as specialty coatings. We offer pass through wheelabrating and sandblasting services and our industrial coatings division ...
ELPC's Northwest Indiana Protector Project fights air and water pollution to safeguard residents' health, Lake Michigan's ecology, and the environment. ... Renewal air permit for the Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor steel mill in East Chicago. IDEM issued a proposed permit for EPA's review, but pulled it for further revisions. The permit ...
Steel continues to be the dominant industry in Northwest Indiana -- as it has been for more than a century. While the mills have provided good-paying jobs for the …
Cleveland-Cliffs and U.S. Steel's mills in Northwest Indiana are some of the largest in the world. Parking lots the size of football fields are filled with steel coil at the mills along the...
U.S. Steel has operated in northwest Indiana for 122 years. And the company continues to see success, according to Joseph S. Pete, who covers the steel industry for our partners at The Times of ...
Burns Harbor, Cleveland-Cliffs' second-largest U.S. facility, is a fully-integrated steelmaking facility located on Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana, 50 miles southeast of Chicago. …
BURNS HARBOR, Ind. (AP) — An explosion rocked a steel mill in northwest Indiana on Tuesday, rattling nearby residents and producing a plume of smoke visible miles away, though no one was injured, officials said.
Pollution from the Gary Works and two other sinter plants—both also located in northwest Indiana—included 11 tons per year of lead, a toxic heavy metal. ... "Steel mills don't need sinter ...