Posted on 03/13/2009 7:05:25 AM PDT by RS_Rider
Temporary layoffs for 77 employees will result from U.S. Steel Corp.'s plan announced last month to shut down three of the 12 coke batteries at its Coke Works in Clairton, according to a notice the company filed with the state. The Downtown-based steelmaker said Thursday it also plans to idle four coke batteries due to economic conditions and cutbacks in steel production. In the state notice, the company said the shutdown of three batteries and associated layoffs will take place March 22 or later. Spokeswoman Erin DiPietro declined to say when the four other batteries would be idled, or how many workers would be affected.
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Oh, great, right when the Cartel Wars are cutting off imports, the US cuts back on domestic production.
What’s a nose to do?
So what? We’ve all got to drink Pepsi now?
How to make a Coke battery.
http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2008/07/28/diy-how-to-make-a-coca-cola-based-battery/
This is the good news...Wait until Cap and Trade becomes law.
I have friends working in that plant rebuilding batteries. I’m wondering if they will be effected by this?
President ObamaPrompter strikes again.
I have heard nothing of the plant upgrades being curtailed.
Hope that’s not the next step.
I can’t imagine what cap and trade would do to the Mon-Valley industrial environment.
If C&T becomes law while these batteries are idled, they will be permanently shuttered.
“This is the good news...Wait until Cap and Trade becomes law.”
I believe you were being semi sarc, however, companies are already figuring C&P in their projections. A portion can be seen in the current rise in prices.
The Cap and Trade that’s needed is on our ‘representatives’. They need to spend a few months at the peoples work and then go home to another job.
Democrat Death-wish to Captialism Alert.
I have a friend in this area that worked for a huge Italian cement firm. They just shut the doors and left the country.
Knowing what I do of my friend and the area, I would wager that all effected by these shut downs voted Obama.
All kidding aside, “coke” is an absolutely critical ingredient for blast furnace-based steelmaking. Other forms of steelmaking don’t require coke AFAIK, at least not in the qtys blast furnaces do.
These get shut down, IMO there’s an excellent chance they’ll be permanently shut down & then dismantled. Now many may like the idea of blast furnaces shutting down [and btw, blast furnaces do not like being shut down, either] but the production of coke is kind of a barometer of steel production.
Anyone with more experience in steelmaking, pls feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
Coke and Iron ore are key to making steele
BTW. processed iron ore pellets made for many a fine slingshot projectile when I was a kid.
It's okay... the workers can collect welfare, we can get the steel from China.
China makes good steel, but some how it sounds like a bad idea ;)
I kinda thought my Coke was rather heavily laden with iron. I’m switching to iron free Pepsi.
BTW, there is a great little bar directly accross from the Clairton mill.
There will be plenty of Kool Aid available for the areas that voted for Odooma.
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