Iron and Steel

Seventeen years after the smoke-belching coke ovens at Sparrows Point were shut down because of chronic pollution, the plant's new owner is considering a new plant at the sprawling Baltimore County steel mill, a move that would mean new jobs and help...

Russian steelmaker OAO Severstal completed yesterday its $810 million acquisition of the Sparrows Point steel mill from ArcelorMittal with plans to invest significantly in the Baltimore County plant and rev up production. Sparrows Point management and...

The current owner of Sparrows Point is a rapidly growing multinational steel giant controlled by one of the world's richest men. Sparrows Point's new owner will be a rapidly growing multinational steel giant controlled by one of the world's richest men....

Off the bustling main street of this erstwhile Gold Rush boomtown, up a lane from the B&Bs and renovated brick storefronts and flocks of tourists, a bulky and aged factory looms like an elephant at a tea party, its windows cracked and its corrugated steel...

By most conventional measures, Paul Fredo is an American success story. The son of a coal miner, he made almost $200,000 in the last year, enough to place him in the top 2% of wage earners. As a financial manager for the U.S. unit of Alstom, the French...

But if Grace was at times lordly, he was also respected, and at no time was that respect greater than during World War II. As the ultimate steel production man, he gave the country and its allies what they sorely needed: a rapid outpouring of steel in...

That same year, a small nuclear instrument and electronics company struggling to regroup after nearly going bankrupt began to redirect its core business away from electronics to steel joist manufacturing and ultimately toward steelmaking. Nuclear Corp. of...

If you'd like to take time out from the present and escape into the past by preserving Long Island's history, all you have to do is volunteer. Your local public library, historical society or your favorite museum may be able to put you to work recording...