Bottle cars in front of Stelco’s BOF-shop in Hamilton, Canada
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Weirton BOF Shop Demolished
The former National Steel BOF shop was demolished last week.
The basic oxygen steel making shop with it’s 330 t vessels
operated from 1967 to 2005.
I visited it in 2004.
Final Verdict
U.S. Steel announced the permanent closure of it’s Hamilton, Canada based iron and steel making facilities.
The former Steel Company of Canada (STELCO), founded in 1910, once employed more than 14000 people on the banks of the Lake Ontario.
The plant was bought by U.S. Steel in 2007 and partly idled in 2010.
Only some hot rolling and coke making activities will be continued.
Further images at Stahlseite.
It helps to know…
…what you are shooting. At least in Steel Industry Photography.
One of my first steel plant interiors. Krupp Rheinhausen in 1997 and no clue what that “silo” above might be.
So I never went upstairs to see the two 320 ton BOFs, the second largest in Germany. The BOF shop was blown up in 1999.