Tin Mill Scene

1945/1955

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Tin Mill Scene
  • Title
  • Tin Mill Scene
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B001.F06.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B001.F06.I02
  • Description
  • A scene at the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Tin Mill at its Aliquippa Works, facility located about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. In 1910 the tin mill began operation at the Aliquippa Works and in 1947 the tin mill was modernized and expanded, replacing old facilities for tin plate production. In the mid 1950s the site occupied about twenty acres toward the south end of the main plant. Hot rolled coils, weighing between 6,000 to 10,000 pounds each, were shipped by rail to the tin mill from the 96-inch strip mill at the Pittsburgh Works plant. The coils were cleaned of all the hot-mill scale after they arrived by a process known as pickling. Pickled coils were then ready for the cold reduction process. After cold rolling, the coils were transported to three electrolytic cleaning lines where the oil that accumulated from the cold rolling process was removed in an electrolytic caustic tank. After this process, the coils could either be shipped as black plate or taken to the tinning departments for further processing.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.Aliquippa Works.Tin Mill.
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Aliquippa.
    Steel industry and trade--Employees--Pennsylvania--Aliquippa.
  • Source
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Collection Photographs, 1864-1953, MSP 33, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Photographs
  • Rights Information
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