US Steel Fairless Hills Plant

USA / New Jersey / Fieldsboro / Berdis Boulevard, 400
 production, steelworks
A former steel works, much of which is now closed.

Production from what was then a fully integrated steel mill began on December 11, 1952.
Facilities included two blast furnaces, nine open hearth furnaces, two coke batteries, an 80-inch hot strip mill, rolling mills, a sheet and tin department, a pipe mill and a vessel slip, all located on nearly 4,000 acres along the Delaware River. Peak mployment reached more than 8,000 in 1974.

On August 8, 1991, the company closed the hot side of the plant and the pipe mill. Since the import crisis of 1998, employment levels have fallen sharply and various plant facilities have operated on an irregular basis.

At the Fairless Plant, a finishing facility located near Philadelphia, Pa., cold-rolled products are finished into galvanized sheet. Sheet products from the Mon Valley Works serve customers in the appliance, automotive, metal building and home construction industries. Mon Valley Works has an annual raw steel production capability of 2.9 million net tons.

United States Steel Corporation : Mon Valley Works - Fairless Plant
400 Berdis Boulevard, Fairless Hills, PA 19030
215-736-4000

www.uss.com/corp/facilities/fairless-plant.asp
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Steel
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Coordinates:   40°9'20"N   74°44'49"W

Comments

  • Made for a fantastic class trip back in '62. Got to see production from start to finish.
  • No longer abandoned
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