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| Friday, September 29 -------------------------- Process Tours Survival of Industry------------------------------------------------------ Bus A – 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. ---------------------------------------------- --------Many of the businesses we will visit on this tour managed to survive the deindustrialization of the Youngstown area by diversifying, reaching outside the region, and combining traditional modes of production with modern, even cutting-edge, technology. We will visit McDonald Steel (formerly part of US Steel), a company that now produces symmetrical and asymmetrical hot-rolled shapes. The group will also stop at L.B. Foster Co, where they make railroad rails. For the remainder of the tour, we will split into smaller groups for visits to Coronado Steel Co., a local foundry, and General Extrusions, producer of extruded, fabricated and finished products. The group will also split to go to Liberty Pattern and Mold, patternmaker for Coronado Steel as well as other businesses in the tri-state area, and Regal Tool and Die, a small local business with two facilities manufacturing dies and also producing finished products. We will end at the Tod Engine Foundation site where Rick Rowlands will discuss the restoration of a 1914 Tod Steam Engine saved from a local steel rolling plant. |
McDonald Steel Courtesy of McDonald Steel |
Tod Engine Courtesy of the Tod Engine Foundation |
Hot Metal---------------------------------------------------------- Bus B – 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.------------------------------------------------The first 25 people to sign up for this tour will have the good fortune to visit WCI Steel Inc., the area's only remaining fully integrated steel mill, including hot metal. The remainder of the group will visit the General Electric Ohio Lamp Plant and Flex-Strut, where they focus on steel roll forming and the production of curtain walls. The group will also visit McDonald Steel (formerly part of US Steel), a company that now produces symmetrical and asymmetrical hot-rolled shapes. The group will also tour the CASTLO Industrial Park. Owned and operated by the CASTLO Improvement Corporation that formed in 1978 to respond to the economic crisis facing the area at that time, the park consists of mostly renovated Youngstown Sheet and Tube buildings used for other industries. The group will also visit Astroshapes, a local company that focuses on aluminum extrusion. We will end the day at the Tod Engine Foundation site where Rick Rowlands will discuss the restoration of a 1914 Tod Steam Engine that was saved from a local steel rolling plant. |
Other information related to some the businesses... Coronado Steel Company ----- Liberty Pattern and Mold-------Regal Tool and Die ----- McDonald Steel |
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