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I was interested to find out which steel mill, since they are almost non-existent in Pittsburgh these days, but this is about Allegheny Technologies, headquartered downtown, which owns a number of mills and specialty metals businesses scattered around.

There is some steel produced around here still but it's nothing like the old days. The gigantic J&L plant was still in operation when we drove my brother to Carnegie Mellon.



I was also interested to find out which one, given that I'm from Pittsburgh. Turns out that that this is what Allegheny Ludlum is called these days; they pay my grandpa's pension, and several other relatives worked for them for a very long time as well. And today, I work for Cloudflare, though not on any of the stuff that was involved here. It's a small world.


> I was interested to find out which steel mill, since they are almost non-existent in Pittsburgh these days

As evidenced by the smell of sulphur yesterday morning the coke plants down in Clairton are still alive and well!




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