But steel making on Teesside's gone, and it's not coming back.
Steel-making is still strong in Sheffield, even though it employs far fewer people than it used to.
Cleveland, Robson said, was keen to enlarge the company and continue to expand it to produce steel-making raw materials.
He was born about the time the town was beginning to decline as a centre of shipbuilding and steel-making.
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The best way to help exports, say analysts, is to speed up privatisation and to restructure state industries, such as mining and steel-making.
It is the first commercial jet built mostly from carbon-plastic fibres rather than conventional aluminium and steel, making it more lightweight, and therefore, fuel-efficient.
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.
The new furnace was opened in January 2003 - a development which was seen as a sign of the firm's commitment to steel-making at the site.
Mr Conway believes that with Teesside's steel-making and engineering expertise there is no better place to make a pier and he hopes to persuade local businesses to help.
Labour is now clearly identified as the establishment, but turned out to be powerless when Corus, a British-Dutch steel firm, announced in February it was getting rid of 3, 000 Welsh steel-making jobs.
The steel lobby claims foreign competition is killing the industry, but that is simply not true: American steel-making capacity is no lower now than it was when President Ford was contemplating sanctions.
In India, we had launched some contracts around steel but for SMX, we went with the basic raw material of making steel iron ore.
The intensive energy users making steel and cement have threatened to take their jobs abroad if energy costs go up too far.
Frick made his money turning coal into coke for making steel, later hooking up with Carnegie to form what would become U.S. Steel.
Iconic industrials like Ford, Caterpillar, Cummins and US Steel are either making new lows or sank 25 percent or more from highs made this past spring.
There are surely clever compromises that could offer help to steel workers without making a mockery of the Bush administration as a friend of free trade.
Xie Qihua, the president of Baosteel, saw her company's profitability drastically reduced in the mid-1990s when the government forced her to absorb four rival loss-making steel producers.
If Hyundai is making steel rather than importing it from places like Japan or China, it can control prices and ensure adequate supply for its rapidly growing automotive business.
If Hyundai is making steel rather than importing it from places like Japan or China, it can control prices and quality, and ensure adequate supply for its rapidly growing automotive business.
Asia has largely recovered and the dollar has weakened, making American steel more competitive.
It meant going outside to buy raw steel slabs instead of making them.
Upstream producers such as Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD), the world's largest producer of iron ore and pellets, are trying to get into the business of making quality steel.
Iron ore price negotiations continued between global miners and Chinese steelmakers, with various news reports suggesting that a new deadline has been set for this month, and that the Chinese steel mills may be making a concession on the deep price cuts they seek.
Arcelor Mittal has been active in making sure its steel mills are well supplied.
Companies making heavy stuff like steel in huge, labor-intensive factories dominated U.S. industry.
In the mid-1970s Ford concluded that its business was making cars, not steel.
In the mid-1970s Ford determined that its business was making cars, not steel.
But they have found that it is not easy to copy Nucor, especially in making higher grades of steel.
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