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Show Tourists Welcome To U.S. Steel Plant The West's largest, fully integrated inte-grated steel plant is located at Geneva, on the shore of Utah Lake. The Geneva works of Columbia-Geneva Steel Division, Unit of United States Steel Corporation, Corpora-tion, has attracted thousands of visitors each year. Tourists are welcome at the U. S. Steel Plant where expert guides are furnished. Visitors must be at least 14-years old, Clearance must be obtained a week in advance for citizens of a foreign country. Visitors Visi-tors should go to the Industrial Relations building before 9:30 a. m.( or 1:30 p.m. to arrange for tours. In Salt Lake City, they may call the United States Steel Public Pub-lic Relations, Kearns Building, for Tour clearance. The Steel Plant has a capacity of 2,000,000 net tons of steel. The plant started with a scheduled capacity of 1,283,400 net tons of steel ingots. Facilities included 252 by-product coke ovens, three 1,100 ton blast furnaces, nine 225 open hearth furnaces, a slabbing and blooming mill, a semi-continuous plate mill, and a structural mill. Additional capacity and varied facilities are always being added. Today there is another open hearth furnace, a hot strip coil and sheet mill. All of the raw materials for the blast furnace used by Utah's U. S. Steel Corporation come from$ the State of Utah. Coal is brought from Carbon County; Iron ' Ore comes from the huge open pit mines near Cedar City. Limestone the third basic product, is quarried quar-ried near Payson, in Utah County, Coun-ty, just a few miles from the huge plant. In 1955 a pipe mill was completed, com-pleted, where steel pipe up to 36 inches in diameter is formed to supply the West's ever-increasing need for more fuel and water. This new plant is the most modern in America, and can turn out more than 6-miles of high strength pipe daily. The newest addition to Utah's growing industrial Empire is an anhydrous ammonia Plant now under construction. When completed, complet-ed, the plant will have an annual capacity of 70,000 tons of high strength fertilizer tailored to the needs of western farmers. Anhydrous Amonia is another product synthesized from that wonder mineral, Coal. U. S. Steel has spent millions of dollars in research re-search to recover valuable coke oven gasses, formerly wasted. Now through modern know how, they are turned into the basis for such useful products as the Fertilizer mentioned above, Nylon, Plastics, Dyes, Vitamins, and Insecticides. Thousands of different items are manufactured from materials produced pro-duced from coke oven gas. The Ironton Plant of Geneva Steel Works is Jocated just 10-miles 10-miles south of Geneva, north of Springville. Iron from the 2-blast furnaces at Ironton is shipped to Geneva's open hearths for conversion conver-sion to Steel and for casting into pig iron, vital to western foundry-men. |