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By 2008, the steelmaking capacity at Sparrows Point had dropped to 3.6 million tons per year, and it sold 2.3 millions tons of finished products. [13] In 2012, the Sparrows Point steel mill was purchased along with other mills in Ohio and West Virginia by Ira Rennert's Renco Group for $1.2 billion. [14]
An economic history of the American steel industry (Routledge, 2009) online. Temin, Peter. Iron and Steel in Nineteenth Century America: An Economic Inquiry (1964) Warren, Kenneth. Bethlehem Steel: Builder and Arsenal of America. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. ISBN 0-8229-4323-9 online
Maryland Steel, in Sparrows Point, Maryland, US, was founded in 1887. It was acquired by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in 1916 and renamed as the Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard. The shipyard was sold in 1997 to Baltimore Marine Industries Inc. In 2012, it was owned by Barletta Industries, which had converted it to the Sparrows Point ...
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Known as Bethlehem Boulevard, the state highway runs 2.35 miles (3.78 km) from Riverside Drive in Sparrows Point east to North Point Road in Edgemere. MD 158 parallels Interstate 695 (I-695) along the northern edge of the former Bethlehem Steel complex at Sparrows Point and connects MD 157 with MD 151.
The steelmaker's CEO David Burritt told WSJ the nearly $3 billion Nippon had pledged to invest in U.S. Steel's older mills was crucial to remain competitive and maintain workers' jobs. "We wouldn ...
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The decline of the US steel market in the latter half of the twentieth-century caused a decline in traffic for the PBR as Bethlehem Steel shut down many of its operations at Sparrows Point. Steel making on the point would cease forever when the fourth successor to Bethlehem Steel, RG Steel went bankrupt in 2012 and the site was liquidated.