Operations in Bethlehem continued but the Combination Mill rolled its last beam in 1997, https://www.mcall.com/1997/03/21/steels-combination-mill-succumbs-to-economics-its-closing-means-the-company-with-a-wide-flange-beam-for-its-logo-no-longer-will-make-them/ and the coke works shut down in 1998. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/beyond-steel/final-years-closure-steel-plant-bethlehem-pa Homer Research Labs survived into ISG ownership but closed in 2005. https://www.mcall.com/2005/12/31/homer-research-laboratories-has-only-a-glorious-history-to-carry-on-friday-was-the-last-workday-for-30-remaining-staffers/
Operations in Bethlehem continued but the Combination Mill rolled its last beam in 1997, https://www.mcall.com/1997/03/21/steels-combination-mill-succumbs-to-economics-its-closing-means-the-company-with-a-wide-flange-beam-for-its-logo-no-longer-will-make-them/ and the coke works shut down in 1998. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/beyond-steel/final-years-closure-steel-plant-bethlehem-pa Homer Research Labs survived into ISG ownership but closed in 2005. https://www.mcall.com/2005/12/31/homer-research-laboratories-has-only-a-glorious-history-to-carry-on-friday-was-the-last-workday-for-30-remaining-staffers/
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In 1997 Bethlehem Steel purchased the Lukens Steel Company in Coatesville, PA for approximately $400 million. https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/12/16/bethlehem-steel-to-acquire-lukens/ Link Lukens Steel Company to [[Lukens Steel Company]]
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Bethlehem Steel Corporation installed the Gray rolling mill and produced the nation’s first wide-flange structural shapes, which proved partly responsible for ushering in the age of the skyscraper and establishing Bethlehem Steel as the leading supplier of steel to the construction industry.
My revisions:
In January, 1908, Bethlehem Steel Corporation began producing America’s first commercially successful wide-flange structural shapes, ( citation) which proved partly responsible for ushering in the age of the skyscraper and establishing Bethlehem Steel as the leading supplier of steel to the construction industry. The beams were made according to the designs of Henry Grey, who patented the process in 1897 (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Iron_Age/6l4zlSu4fqIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=1897+henry+grey+beam+mill&pg=PA722&printsec=frontcover). The decision by Bethlehem to pursue the Grey Mill was announced in December 1905. Schwab had earlier tried, and failed, to convince U.S. Steel to produce the beams. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Steel_Titan/DcGOZqZ6k_UC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=1897+henry+grey+beam+mill&pg=PA172&printsec=frontcover
The first major project built using the new Bethlehem Grey beams was Gimbel’s department store in New York City. It was built using 12,000 tons of Grey beams. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bethlehem_Steel/fbrSRvxCQUcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=grey+beam+gimbels&pg=PA94&printsec=frontcover
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Bethlehem Steel’s corporate records are housed at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware, and at the National Museum of Industrial History in Bethlehem.
My revisions:
add: National Canal Museum in Easton, PA https://canals.org/learn/ncmarchivescollectionslist/
and Industrial Archives and Library in Bethlehem, PA: https://industrialarchives.org/research/featured-collections/
add: At the fomer Cambria Iron Company plant in Johnstown, PA, the blacksmith shop, carpententry and pattern shop, and rolling mill administration buildings are now part of the Center for Metal Arts: https://wjactv.com/news/local/a-closer-look-inside-johnstowns-center-for-metal-arts-awarded-15-million-grant Two
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By the end of 1995, Bethlehem Steel ceased manufacturing steel at its main Bethlehem plant, bringing an end to 140 years of such production in Bethlehem, and the company ceased operations in Bethlehem.
My revisions:
On November 18, 1995 the “hot end” of the Bethlehem, PA, plant shut down, putting an end to integrated steel making at the plant. https://www.moderncasting.com/articles/2021/01/25/museum-fires-foundry-groups-memory-25-years-after-last-cast
Operations in Bethlehem continued but the Combination Mill rolled its last beam in 1997, https://www.mcall.com/1997/03/21/steels-combination-mill-succumbs-to-economics-its-closing-means-the-company-with-a-wide-flange-beam-for-its-logo-no-longer-will-make-them/ and the coke works shut down in 1998. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/beyond-steel/final-years-closure-steel-plant-bethlehem-pa Homer Research Labs survived into ISG ownership but closed in 2005. https://www.mcall.com/2005/12/31/homer-research-laboratories-has-only-a-glorious-history-to-carry-on-friday-was-the-last-workday-for-30-remaining-staffers/
Original Text – under Late 20th Century, between 1995 and 1998 add:
My revision, really and additon:
In 1997 Bethlehem Steel purchased the Lukens Steel Company in Coatesville, PA for approximately $400 million. https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/12/16/bethlehem-steel-to-acquire-lukens/ Link Lukens Steel Company to Lukens Steel Company
