Posted on 01/14/2017 10:48:51 AM PST by knarf
Dura-Bond Industries has purchased equipment from U.S. Steel’s idled McKeesport plant and hopes to begin producing tubular products primarily for the energy industry within six to nine months, the president of the Export-based company said Thursday.
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That is what he was hoping.
Ha! Nice.
I maintain the media polls during the election were accurate....but the media reweighted (i.e.cooked the books) to get their desired results.
I know. My younger sister and her husband who used to be a steel salesman before he retired moved to Allentown, PA thirty years ago as the steel industry was in it’s death throes. I sure hope this brings a turn around for that whole area. It should have a ripple effect on the local economy. You need coke to fire a steel mill blast furnace and that means coal mining.
What these old locations have is....their locations. Space and land, access to mobility and delivery systems like rail and waterways.
Screw YOU, I already HAVE parking for 4,000 !
Man I am tired already.
Not just steel. Friend of ours owns an aluminum casting mill. Fewer than 50 family-owned forges are still running in the US. Regulated by govt shackles andand undercut by overseas casters.
We have a small steel plant in West Seattle. I met a guy (truck driver) in British Columbia once who drives 3 loads a week to Canada.
He had an interesting story
He was a Scot who owned two pubs in London. They banned smoking in the pubs and the loss of sales revenue put him out of business.
He emigrated to Canada as a refugee due to being out if work for 3 years (imagine that...a regulation turned a UK citizen into a refugee for lack of work.)
He went to Vancouver B.C. and worked in the cruise line industry.
Housing prices in Vancouver skyrocketed over the course of 6 years...so much so that he could not afford to live there and the commute from where he could afford to live was not manageable.
He got his truck driving license and whatever permit that was needed to cross the border regularly as a truck driver and now he supports his family moving steel from Seattle to Vancouver.
Red tape and expenses that I pray shrink drastically under Trump.
Hope our millenials are up for some real mens’ work.
Wow. When Seattle has a better work environment than yours, you know you’ve messed up.
Do you remember when zero got elected there was a list going up everyday of the companies closing down, a big, long list. I wish I could find it..
Imagine “stainless steel” that does not rust.
Also a boost to trains, trucks and many other industries
The Chinese way of business....provide a good product in order to get the sale, then decrease the quality until the customer complains.
The Japanese way of business....Kaizen....continuously improve quality...indefinitely.
You can get away with the "Chinese way" temporarily, but eventually the customer twigs to the gyp.
Fool me once.......fool me twice......
Ita located at the west end of the West Seattle Bridge and its amazing to drive by and see the glow and splash and sparks of molten steel while being forged.
Winning!
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