STEEL: Pittsburgh Plus

"There's no room in the steel industry for a little company so, by God. we're gonna be big." says Pittsburgh Steel Co.'s President Avery C. Adams.

Last week Pittsburgh Steel opened a new seven-acre cold rolling mill at Allenport. Pa., hard by a big, hot rolling mill opened last year. The new plant completed a four-year. $65 million expansion program that moved Pittsburgh up to twelfth among U.S. steelmakers. By more than tripling its total plant investment, Pittsburgh transformed itself from a high-cost, marginal producer to a modern, well-balanced company. All this...

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