| Posted by mmi16 on April 29, 2020 | |
Never seen a steel mill with so much non-rust color!
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Wasn't this plant shut down a few years ago, only to be re-opened? Or am I thinking of another steel and wire plant in the area?
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I agree on the color comment. The blue is what attracted me to this photo.
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| Posted by FSWood on April 30, 2020 | |
It was this plant, playing in Google found this from Saint Louis Public Radio, "Granite City workers in the spotlight as they prepare to make steel again By Mary Delach Leonard, Jun 5, 2018 ... After a two-year wait for jobs to come back, steelworkers threw an old-fashioned street party on Saturday, just blocks from U.S. Steel’s Granite City plant. It was a “fire up” party to celebrate 500 people finally going back to work to start up a blast furnace that was idled in December 2015, said Dan Simmons, president of United Steelworkers Local 1899.
“We will start being steel producers again,’’ Simmons told about 100 people gathered on the parking lot outside the union’s labor temple on State Street. The party was also a thank-you to the community, he said. ... The plant is a Metro-East landmark — a behemoth of heavy industry that sprawls across 1,500 acres and looks its age. Pipes and smokestacks wear a coat of grit and rust. Exterior walls sport U.S. Steel’s signature blue paint that is weathered in places and peeling. But the steelworkers proudly talk about plant updates that can’t be seen from the road. ..." https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/granite-city-workers-spotlight-they-prepare-make-steel-again
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| Posted by on April 30, 2020 | |
Did they run out of paint?
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