Steel tubing is preferred to pipe ( pipe is rolled and welded, whereas tubing is mandrel drawn, giving it consistent wall thickness and superior strength.

No American company manufactured pipe of that specification, so three Japanese companies — Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd., Nippon Steel Corporation, and Nippon Kokan Kabushiki Kaisha — received a $ 100 million contract for more than 800 miles ( 1280 km ) of pipeline.

Steel pipe has National Pipe Thread ( NPT ) standard tapered male threads, which connect with female tapered threads on elbows, tees, couplers, valves, and other fittings.

While recent years saw the end of Welland operations for several companies, such as John Deere which announced in September 2008 that it would be closing its plant and relocating manufacturing to Wisconsin and Mexico, businesses such as Lakeside Steel ( a pipe plant formerly owned by Stelco ) continues to employ residents.

* Steel Catenary Riser, a type of pipe used for transporting production fluids offshore from the well to the oil rig.

It flows north from the Roxhill Park neighborhood for several miles along the valley of the Delridge neighborhoods of West Seattle, turning east to reach the Duwamish Waterway via a 3, 300 ft ( 1006 m ) pipe beneath the Nucor plant ( formerly Bethlehem Steel ).

At full production, ThyssenKrupp Steel USA will have the capacity to produce 4 million metric tons of carbon steel for NAFTA customers in the automotive, construction, appliance, pipe and tube, and service center industries.

* Dr. Steel – He came with a steel right hand and an iron pipe, and a big dragon tattoo on his chest.

* Steel pipe cutter

There was then a sharp decline in the number of manufacturing firms, as many were consolidated into larger companies, notably the American Steel and Wire Company, formed by the merging of Gates's and Washburn's and Ellwood's industries.

During World War II, the Glenn L. Martin Company in Middle River had 53, 000 employees manufacturing airplanes for the war effort and Bethlehem Steel had more than 30, 000 workers at its sprawling Sparrows Point steel mill.

In 1929, Newton Steel opened a manufacturing plant on Lake Erie in Monroe, and this plant would later be purchased by Alcoa in 1942, Kelsey-Hayes in 1947, the Ford Motor Company in 1949 and subsequently under their Visteon division in 2000 and later as the Automotive Components Holdings in 2005.

Manufacturers including Eptam Plastics, Blouin Steel Fabricators, Freudenberg NOK, and PCC Structurals form the backbone of the town's manufacturing / industrial base.

Richardson Boat, Buffalo Bolt, Durez Chemical, National Grinding Wheel, Taylor Devices, International Paper, Tonawanda Iron & Steel, Riverside Chemical, and hundreds of other succesfful manufacturing businesses called North Tonawanda home.

In 1900, its only manufacturing plant was a steel mill owned by Carnegie Steel Company.

Leetsdale at one time had a formidable industrial manufacturing base, with a Bethlehem Steel mill that closed in the late 1970s.

In 1902, the Standard Steel Car Company opened one of its largest railcar manufacturing facilities in Butler.

The manufacturing industry has seen hits to city since the 1990s ; however, many large employers still remain, including Ethicon a division of Johnson & Johnson, Conner Steel, Hirschfield Steel, and Martifer, a Portuguese conglomerate and wind-turbine tower manufacturing plant.

Steel manufacturing in Baytown began in 1970 when United States Steel opened the Texas Works near the city.

Wheeling Steel Corp., incorporated in Delaware was authorized to do business in Ohio, and maintained four of its eight manufacturing plants in Ohio.

The Ohio Tax Commissioner assessed ad valorem taxes on accounts receivable derived from shipments originating from Ohio manufacturing plants belonging to Wheeling Steel Corporation and National Distillers Products Corporation on the grounds that such accounts " result from the sale of property from a stock of goods maintained within the state.

# Steel industry customers rely on the North American steel producers as a vital component of their success and are investing in manufacturing technologies that support a strong steel demand.

Bethlehem Steel and a subsidiary company, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, were two of the most powerful symbols of American industrial manufacturing leadership.

Image: Bethlehemsteel01. jpg | Bethlehem Steel Corporation's flagship manufacturing facility in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

The plants of companies like Union Carbide, United Steel, Plymouth Cordage Company, three drop forges, a cotton mill, and the Atlas Steels, as well as general manufacturing plants, had big influence on shaping early Welland.

" Swedish Steel " is a term for the steel used by the German Mauser, and later by Swedish manufacturing facilities, to make the M96 rifles.

National Steel Car built a manufacturing plant in 1938.

The office and manufacturing plant facilities, on the Southwest corner of Airport and Derry Road, that was built by National Steel Car 1938-1942, and subsequently used by Victory Aircraft 1942-1945, A. V.

Tata Steel Europe's Clydebridge Steel Works and other smaller manufacturing businesses continue but most employment in the area comes from the distribution or service industries.

Avro began work proper in 1955, with the assigned Rainbow Code name of " Blue Steel " which it would keep in service.

One of the oldest common institutions, it began as the " Common Assembly " of the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC ).

Steel production began by 1875, when Andrew Carnegie founded the Edgar Thomson Steel Works in North Braddock, which eventually evolved into the Carnegie Steel Company.

After Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, the designer and builder of Italy's first aircraft, came to the United States in 1911, he began to design aircraft for a number of firms including Maryland Pressed Steel Company, Wright Aeronautical Corporation and Columbia Aircraft Company.

Their first game, Shattered Steel, began its life as a proof-of-concept demo, similar to the MechWarrior games.

Ecorse became a significant economic force in the region when its first steel mill, Michigan Steel Mill, began operation in 1923.

The Steel Workers Organizing Committee began an attempt to organize workers at Republic Steel in the spring of 1937, following the unionizing of workers at the country's two largest steel companies US Steel and Jones & Laughlin Steel.

The town's industrial economy began in 1873, when Andrew Carnegie built the Edgar Thomson Steel Works on the historic site of Braddock's Field in what is now North Braddock, Pennsylvania.

Clairton ’ s existence began just after the turn of the 20th century when the Crucible Steel Company acquired a large tract along the west side of the Monongahela River, about south of Pittsburgh.

Fairless Hills as it is known today began in 1951 when developer Danherst Corporation began erecting prefabricated homes built by Gunnison Magichomes, Inc. Gunnison was a wholly owned subsidiary of U. S. Steel.

Testing on the project began in September above the Kong River watershed that ran through the Steel Tiger and Tiger Hound areas.

Known primarily for his Steel Guitar work, the Gibson guitar company called Perkins " the world's most influential Dobro player ", and even began producing an " Al Perkins Signature " Dobro in 2001-designed and autographed by Perkins.

Morgan began conversations with Charles M. Schwab, president of Carnegie Co., and businessman Andrew Carnegie in 1900 with the intention of buying Carnegie's business and several other steel and iron businesses to consolidate them to create the United States Steel Corporation.

Although the company continued to prosper during the early 1880s, its share of the rail market began to decline in the face of competition from growing Pittsburgh-based firms such as the Carnegie Steel Company.

On 3 April, the U. S. began Operation Steel Tiger over the Laotian panhandle and the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ ) to locate and destroy enemy forces and materiel being moved southward at night on the Ho Chi Minh Trail into South Vietnam.

De-unionization efforts throughout the Midwest began against the AA in 1897 when Jones and Laughlin Steel refused to sign a contract.

This traditional reading of the Commerce Clause was later disavowed by the Court, which after threats from Roosevelt began to read congressional power more expansively in this area, in cases such as National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation ( 1937 ).