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Exterior view of the Mesta Machine Company
1905/1925
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Title
Exterior view of the Mesta Machine Company
Creator
unknown
Identifier
MSP210.B012.I03
Description
The Mesta Machine Company plant, located about six miles from Pittsburgh, covered more than twenty acres and employed approximately three thousand employees, most of whom were skilled mechanics. The Mesta Machine Company was one of the leading manufacturers of machine tool and steel mill equipment in the world during the first half of the twentieth century. Some of their products included, gas and steam blowing engines for blast furnaces, forging presses, shears, cut and machine-molded gears, and various types of rolls used in rolling mills. The facility housed laboratories, a pattern, foundry, erecting, gear molding, ship shaft, and forage departments, as well as an open-hearth steel department, and numerous mills. The company sold equipment to iron and steel plants in Canada, Australia, India, England, France, Italy, and Japan. In 1983 WHEMCO acquired the assets of Mesta Machine Company.
Subject
Mesta Machine Company (West Homestead, Pa.)
Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--West Homestead.
West Homestead (Pa.)
Commercial buildings--Pennsylvania--West Homestead.
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Mesta Machine Company Photographs
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