Specter takes hard-hat line on imports
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U.S. Steel's Irvin plant in West Mifflin has received a visit from US Senator Arlen Specter, who is taking a firm stand against cheap steel imported from Russia, Japan and Brazil. U.S. Steel officials reported to Specter that the company has been affected badly by a record 22 million tons of steel dumped into the country for the first seven months of 1998. The flood of cheap steel imports has also placed Pennsylvania's Mon Valley steelworkers out of work. Specter criticized the Clinton administration of being unable to stop the dumping of cheap steel into the country because of fear that such move would worsen the economic crisis in Indonesia and Russia.
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Its Irvin plant in West Mifflin, PA, receives a visit from Sen Arlen Specter, who takes a firm stand against cheap steel imports
Publication Name: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
Subject: Business, regional
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Year: 1998
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J&L Specialty Steel, based in Pittsburgh, PA, shows off its DRAP line, a first-of-its-kind line, which was constructed at a cost of over $150 million. The DRAP line, as long as more than four football fields, can be operated by just three people and seven overseers and can separate nearly a mile of flattened, tepered and polished stainless steel. According to Paul J. Grandy, vice president of engineering, conventional mills would take as long as two weeks to do the same task. The line is currently producting around 32 tons of stainless steel coils per hour, 2 tons less than the actual capacity.
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Shows off its DRAP line, a first-of-its-kind line, which was constructed at a cost of over $150 mil
Publication Name: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
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Year: 1998
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J&L mulls building rolling mill in Midland
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J&L Specialty Steel is thinking of constructing a $250-million to $300-million rolling mill at its facility in Midland, PA. The company, which at the present time pays steelmakers to convert steel slabs from its Midland plant into coils of semifinished stainless steel sheet, would be able to do the work with the proposed rolling mill. The company could build the plant as an alternative to renewing its contract with LTV Steel and Weirton Steel, which are tasked to do the work, or striking a new deal with another contractor.
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Is thinking of constructing a $250-million to $300-million rolling mill at its facility in Midland, PA
Publication Name: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA)
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