Locally, steel mills in the Great Lakes region, clustered mainly along the south shore of Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana, made 555,000 tons of metal in the week that ended Nov. 4, down from ...

In 2011, Burns Harbor and Indiana Harbor, the two northwest Indiana mills now owned by Cliffs, and U.S. Steel's Gary Works were responsible for more than 95% of the 224 tons of unregulated toxic ...

Northwest Indiana steel mills can more easily procure iron ore from Minnesota's Iron Range and northern Michigan. They're also close to many of the largest users of steel: automotive plants in ...

PORTAGE, Ind. — A group of sub-contractors is accused of running a two-year scheme that stole nearly $2 million worth of scrap metal intended for U.S Steel in Northwest Indiana. Police ...

U.S. Steel's largest domestic facility is Gary Works, in Gary, Indiana, on the shore of Lake Michigan. For many years, the Gary Works Plant was the world-largest steel mill and it remains the largest integrated mill in North America. It was built in 1906 and has been operating since June 28, 1908.

ArcelorMittal, the multinational steelmaker that took over three of the five major steel mills along Northwest Indiana's lakefront in the mid-2000s, is largely calling it quits on making steel in ...

BURNS HARBOR, Ind. (AP) — An explosion rocked a steel mill in northwest Indiana on Tuesday, rattling nearby residents and producing a plume of …

Steel mills in the Great Lakes region, clustered mainly along the South Shore of Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana, made 603,000 tons of meta… Congressional Steel Caucus urges that ...

07/08/2022 05:00 PM EDT. GARY, Ind. — Three of the nation's largest, dirtiest steel mills sit on a roughly 20-mile strip along Lake Michigan. Each year, their stacks belch a cocktail of lead ...

The Hoosier state has cranked out more steel coil than any other state for more than three decades. "In 2017, Indiana was the leading raw steel producing state with 24.1 million net tons ...

Jobs at Northwest Indiana steel mills are important to the local economy, but so are other jobs. "There are thousands of jobs that are reliant on downstream industries," Mrvan said, during an interview at the Corner Café in Griffith. Lauerman said, when steel is doing well, that means restaurants do well. ...

Cleveland-Cliffs and U.S. Steel's mills in Northwest Indiana are some of the largest in the world. Parking lots the size of football fields are filled with steel coil at the …

The largest federal research grant in the history of Purdue University Northwest will help Region steel mills have a future as the world works to phase out carbon emissions.

19 hours agoLocally, steel mills in the Great Lakes region, clustered mainly along the south shore of Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana, made 552,000 tons of metal in the …

After divesting its steel mills along the lakeshore in Northwest Indiana, ArcelorMittal is teaming up with Nippon Steel to invest an estimated $600 million in its much newer AM/NS Calvert mill in ...

Indiana continues to lead the nation in steel production. Our partners at The Times of Northwest Indiana report Indiana produced 21.6 million tons of steel in 2020, which is down from 24.7 million the

Northwest Indiana's steel mills are threatened by newer steel mills like Big River Steel in Arkansas, which is expanding its automotive steel production and using newer technology to produce lower ...

It's poised to rope in $44 billion in revenue if it succeeds in swallowing up U.S. Steel. Cleveland-Cliffs said it achieved $120 million in synergies by taking over AK Steel and $150 million by ...

Steel mills in the Great Lakes region, clustered mainly along the lakeshore in Northwest Indiana, made 576,000 tons of metal in the week that ended Dec. 26, down from 581,000 tons the previous week.

Proposals such as a total ban on coal in the United States could spell doom for Northwest Indiana's integrated mills along Lake Michigan, as they require coking coal as a feedstock to create iron ...

In early April, ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel producer, which employs about 10,000 workers in northwest Indiana, announced it was idling the Indiana Harbor #3 blast furnace and the ...

The publication also reports steelworkers from U.S. Steel just received profit-sharing bonuses of more than $9,400. In what may be a signal of recovery in the northwest Indiana steel industry ...

In 1918, Clayton Mark built the first blast furnace at Indiana Harbor West, which also operated ore docks, a strip mill, a steel shop, pipe mills, butt-weld mills, a seamless tube mill, coke ...

Steel continues to be the dominant industry in Northwest Indiana — as it has been for more than a century. While the mills have provided good-paying jobs for the thousands who have worked there ...

The Indiana Harbor steel mill in East Chicago — then owned by ArcelorMittal — ranked third in the state with 6.8 million pounds of toxic chemicals, including 218,469 pounds emitted into the ...

As recently as 1969, employment in the steel mills accounted for nearly 30 percent of total local employment in northwest Indiana, but only 0.8 percent in the U.S. as a whole. ... By December 2002, those percentages had declined to 8 percent in northwest Indiana and less than 0.2 percent in the nation. Although this is not a totally legitimate ...

Burns Harbor, Cleveland-Cliffs' second-largest U.S. facility, is a fully-integrated steelmaking facility located on Lake Michigan in Northwest Indiana, 50 miles southeast of Chicago. The location allows for prime …

As part of our Chicago Matters series, Growing Forward, Chicago Public Radio's Northwest Indiana reporter Michael Puente set out to get the answer. Sherry Jackim's young boys love to fish ...

Northwest Indiana's steel mills may require some higher maintenance costs to remain in good running shape since they mostly date back to the early 1900s, said Indiana University Northwest ...

Bad things can happen very quickly." Indiana had a record low 3.8 injuries per 100 workers in 2015, the most recent data available, according to the Indiana Department of Labor. A total of 115 ...

NLMK Indiana offers both EAF and integrated melted products, ranging from 1006 through 1095 grades, HSLA grades and various alloy grades. The facility is strategically located …

Steel mills in the Great Lakes region, clustered mainly in Northwest Indiana, made 527,000 tons of metal in the week that ended Sept. 19, down from 530,000 tons the previous week.