US Steel Edgar Thomson Plant

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Real, honest, back breaking work is done here.
Named for J. Edgar Thomson, chief engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, who bought so much steel rail they named the plant after him. Carnegie built this, his first steel mill in the mid-1870s.The profitable Edgar Thomson Steel Works permitted Mr. Carnegie and a number of his associates to purchase other nearby steel mills. In 1892, Carnegie Steel Company was formed and, at its peak, the company operated a total of eight steel mills.

Mon Valley Works is an integrated steelmaking operation that includes four separate facilities: Clairton Plant, Edgar Thomson Plant, Irvin Plant and Fairless Plant.

Edgar Thomson Plant, located about 10 miles southeast of Pittsburgh in Braddock, Pa., is where basic steel production takes place at Mon Valley Works. Raw materials are combined in blast furnaces to produce liquid iron, which is then refined to create steel. Steel slabs from the facility are sent by rail to the nearby Irvin Plant in West Mifflin, Pa., where they are rolled into a number of different sheet products that 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.

13th Street and Braddock Avenue, Braddock PA 15104
412-273-7000

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