[RS_Rider]

I didn't see this posted on FR and wondered if anyone out there has some insight. Seems strange, with all the oil & gas activity going on in this region I would think that there's a strong market for pipe. I live near by and see huge stockpiles of product waiting to be delivered, over the past couple of years it looked like business was doing well.

[Steely Tom]

They still have a steel plant near Pittsburgh? Who knew?

[PA Engineer]

I didn't see this posted on FR and wondered if anyone out there has some insight. Seems strange, with all the oil & gas activity going on in this region I would think that there's a strong market for pipe. I live near by and see huge stockpiles of product waiting to be delivered, over the past couple of years it looked like business was doing well.

This closure was news to me and am not sure what it means. The pipeline production according to US Steel Vice President I know comes out of Texas.

[SargeK]

They say that foreign producers are ‘dumping’ pipe, and they can’t compete at these plants.

It is a lot more than 180 jobs at the McKeesport works. There are ten times that many in other companies that coat, transport and provide supplies and services to the tubular products plant. All those are done too.

The irony is that the demand for the product has never been higher. Directional drillers and pipeline companies are going crazy trying to link up all these wells to the market.

[barmag25]

I got a call from a recruiter the other day wanting me to move to Alabama because a steel plant was expanding operations there. The recruiter said the new products they would be adding are from plants in other parts of the country that were being shuttered. Maybe has something to do with it.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Two words. China, India.

[martin_fierro]

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[ltc8k6]

December 2012 big layoffs:

http://www.wtae.com/news/local/allegheny/U-S-Steel-lays-off-McKeesport-Tubular-Operations-workers/17607738#!UMJLF

[Vinnie]

IIRC a locomotive co. was going to build high speed trains (Budd, maglev?) in a plant along the river.
What ever happened with that?

[hometoroost]

I worked in those mills in McKeesport and I’m very surprised it lasted this long.