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Show 23 from Geneva and consumed in the cold reduction mill, to duced sheets and tin plate. were the required by stituted to undertake when it the the The $18. 6 million purchased the cold re- net tons' of hot-rolled coils plate mill conversion that U. S. Steel had plant from the government. con- agreed In 1951 Pittsburg plant of Columbia Steel placed additional cold reduction facilities in operation with reduced sheet and was 35 Pittsburg mill. major portion of a Initially 386,000 produce added Twelve shortly antiquated tinplate. annual an 36 capacity of. 215,000 An additional two-hole steam locomotives added to the central maintenance an Angeles, San were Corporation, Company a products, U. S. Steel purchased fabricating r. • '1 plates, structurl shapes, announced in 1951 that its name to Consolidated 12, December, 1947, new p. at the Geneva Plant and hot-rolled coils. Geneva facilities would be installed to producing capacity Walther Mathesius, "Geneva from Steel," 1,440,000 • to Western Metals, 25 . "Western News," 7 'Steel," company, with plants products manufactured increase the plant's annual steel Vol. 5, also 37 Since 1949, the steel Steel was Francisco, Berkeley, Fresno and Taft, California; Corporation. have consisted of equipment a shops. Phoenix, Arizona, and Orange, Texas, changing Western Steel furnace scrapped and replaced by Additional outlet for Geneva's the Consolidated Steel in Los soaking pit after the start of post-war operations at Geneva. like number of Diesel-electric units. Seeking net tons of cold Western Western Meta1 s, Vol. 8, No.9, Sept. I 950, p. Metals, Vol. 7, No.4, April 1949, p. 45 •. 34 • |
