re: #148 fern01

It would also require MASSIVE investment to build that steel mill - blast furnaces, coke ovens etc etc - don’t come cheap.

I keep posting info on Worthington Industries from here in Columbus. They have grown to be a pretty big steel producer all over the world now. They have many locations all over America.

The reason I keep mentioning them is because they are the new steel industry. It has completely changed from the era of early car manufacturing and steel frame buildings, etc. They have new ways to make steel as the furnaces are way more efficient and smaller. Everything is smaller and cleaner.

Here is the link to their site. Look at all they produce and how they do it. It’s not the steel manufacturing like the huge over 1/2 mile long Empire Reeves plant that was just blocks from my childhood home. Thank God.

https://worthingtonindustries.com/Home

And here is one of their main production facilities here in Columbus (Worthington -
a Suburb). This is not the steel plants of the old days. Trump may not even know they make rolled sheet steel here.

Also, I used to do brochures and other advertising materials at an agency that had a client Allied Mineral Products. They made “refractory” materials, specialized sand and ceramic mixes, that are sprayed into the modern furnaces that make them concentrate more heat on the melting of the ore. I learned a lot about all the changes from them, as they sell and help install these liners in many modern furnaces all over America. They have grown along with Worthington.