So we boldly decided to turn our backs on convention and build our own steel plant.
The 1, 600-acre former Bethlehem Steel plant in Pennsylvania now hosts a casino, distribution centers and an outdoor theater.
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But, the steel plant in question makes re-inforcing bar, or re-bar as it is known in the trade.
In 1975, at age 25, he left for Indonesia, where he started a scrap-melting steel plant with a local partner.
In 1937, 10 people were killed when police fired on steelworkers demonstrating near the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago.
Bosses at a Teesside steel plant, which reopened 10 months ago, have announced production has reached the two million tonnes mark.
The council denies their claim that it was negligent during reclamation works at the town's former British Steel plant between 1985 and 1999.
The multinational angered workers and the government when it announced a plan in October to close two furnaces at its steel plant in Florange.
An Italian group has leased the biggest chrome mine, and a Turkish outfit has started processing scrap metal at an elderly Chinese-built steel plant.
The foot rail along the bar is a steel streetcar track that was made in 1973 at the former Bethlehem Steel plant, located at nearby Pier 70.
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First there was Trinidad and Tobago, then Mexico and more recently, he streamlined a steel plant in Kazakhstan which doubled its production in only five years.
That's what led me to work in the shadow of a shuttered steel plant on the South Side of Chicago when I was a community organizer.
In the Linz steel plant, clean as a whistle and done up in a colour scheme recommended by a feng shui expert, there is hardly anybody to be seen.
The Nucor Steel plant, built in 1992 near the small town of Hickman, makes huge rolls of flat steel, metal that can be pressed or bent into shapes and parts.
Successes in privatisation, such as the recent sale of Sidex, a failing steel plant in the grimy Danube delta town of Galati, to an Anglo-Indian company, have been offset by failures.
He accused steelmaker Arcelor Mittal of "lying" and "disrespecting" the country and said it was no longer welcome during a spat over the closure of two furnaces at its steel plant in Florange.
And I carried that lesson with me all those years ago when I got my start fighting for men and women on the South Side of Chicago after their local steel plant shut down.
The ad by Priorities USA Action features Joe Soptic, a former worker at the Kansas City-based steel plant, as he tells the story of how he lost health insurance benefits when the plant shuttered.
They say air quality is improving, thanks to tighter emissions standards for motor-vehicles and to the moving of one the city's biggest polluters, a steel plant in the western suburbs, to an offshore island.
"We have 300 metallurgists and engineers in the plant whose sole focus is to have that steel plant yield successful new steel alloys to help us make our cost, weight and safety targets, " Krafcik said.
In 1990, the Supreme Court ruled that software was, indeed, patentable, but only in the context of some mechanical entity, whether it be a steel plant, a computer system or even (unbelievably) a CD-ROM disc.
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Hyundai, for example, confirmed that it would suspend construction of a semiconductor plant in Scotland and a car factory in Indonesia (both measures that had already been announced), and postponed its founder's dream of building a steel plant.
For example, when Defense Secretary Robert Gates decided to surge production of armored trucks for the Iraq counter-insurgency campaign in 2007, it was discovered there was only one steel plant in the nation producing steel of sufficient strength to meet military needs.
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He hooked on -- as much as he could -- at Simmons Bedding, in the steel mill plant.
Jalil Lespert plays Franck, an ambitious young student who comes home from Paris to spend time at the local steel-pressing plant.
The old heavy steel-making plant at Llanwern closed with the loss of 1, 300 jobs in July 2001, although there is still a finishing mill there.
Ispat dropped some hints about doing without their production, since it could bring in steel from its Mexico plant.
Corus said the investment would reduce C02 emissions by reusing gas generated inside the Basic Oxygen Steel (BOS) plant.
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