UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION MODERN STEEL MAKING PROMOTIONAL FILM MD86474

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These older videos are so much easier to understand! They get straight to the point without all of the unnecessary distractions that we have today.

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

True. I find most of the gimmicks people do to draw attention only distract from the content. I stopped going to trade conventions because almost no one knows how to present ideas anymore. I save more time just scouring the internet from my couch and picking up the phone for a one on one than listening to some dude's 3 hour speech.

[@ExarchGaming]

There is actually a modern video that has more up to date info and way better animations that describe more of the processes used to create the end product.

[@maplemanz]

Yes so true.

[@explorerryan]

Absolutely

[@mushroomman1856]

I'm proud to say that I have worked in two different coke mills and still work for one today.

[@abdurrahmannocomment7269]

How dangerous is it?

[@mezmerizer0266]

NWI?

[@JackF99]

Your grandfather made steel. You cook narcotics. Times have changed.

[@johnbrevard5966]

I had these men in my family... They get off at 5pm and are so tired from making Everything in america Great!!.. I couldn't imagine what a daily day was for my uncles and grandfather.... Hard core Work is what they did,,,,

[@kidkique]

Keep the capitalists Happy by imagining the only way to a fulfilling life is to work your ass off and make someone else rich

[@GUITARSTYLINGSSAMUELLETIZIA]

Now thank you, environmentalist wackjobs, for putting EPA restrictions on American manufacturing

[@hughjanus2066]

@@kidkique They lived a very comfortable life with the pay they got.

[@E-Glide]

"They got off at 5pm".....lol. clueless

[@agxryt]

Lol let's get these jobs back. Pension? 5pm end of day? Not requiring 2 degrees to get started? Sign me the hell up. Gramps had it GOOD.

[@BruselskySluzebnik]

Back in the days when labour work was a proud work.

[@paulg444]

Just a fantastic video. Notice the writers ability to communicate the chemistry with simple illustrations and explanations. This is how you teach people, you teach them in layers, first the broad strokes, then the details are added. Im going to guess that modern steel making is probably 90% more efficient than the steel mills shown here. A modern steel mill is probably consuming less than 10% of the joules of heat per kg of steel that are shown here. If you didnt marvel and laugh at the "melter" taking a deep drag of that cigarette you dont have a heart!

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[@DrLumpyDMus]

Sometimes the logistics of these early plants amaze me. Huge, complex, expensive machines and systems to move the ore from here to there, load and unload it from this and that. But when the bazillion degree plasma comes out of the bottom of the furnace, let's have a guy in a foil suit open the door with a stick.

[@olecranonrebellion9976]

And explosives.

[@lisk3822]

I know nothing about steelmaking, but I'll just say this. It all seems so primative and confusing. Load it, unload it, load it, unload it. Move it here, then there. Doesn't seem very efficient, and yes the guy with a stick putting his life on the line. OSHA seriously needed here.

[@Uffda.]

I mean, 3 counties in Minnesota sent out more iron ore during WWII than all of the rest of the Allied countries COMBINED. More than all of the the combined Axis iron ore. The U.S. happened to have a massive deposit of high grade ore, the Great Lakes to ship it over, and the coal and other components. When they said it’s sometimes pelletized for the next parts of the process? That’s because they had to move to taconite, because the best ore already went into skyscrapers, planes, guns, tanks, bridges, etc… And any one of 10 states for iron? Sure. But 9 of them today produce just about 10% of that altogether. There’s some pretty glossed over things contributing to those prices and business decisions, too. And as soon as there’s a cheaper way, resource, automation option… you know? Like, unions started for some very, very good reasons. People died for it. I’m not saying that they are blameless, but focusing just on that without even mentioning drastic changes in the necessary raw materials or business decisions in it becoming uneconomical feels a bit like ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!’

[@mountainman7341]

Come from a long line of Ohio Miners, Millwrights, and Pottery workers. Need to bring it all back home and give Americans jobs!

[@kenkelly5848]

that should work in theory but most americans only want to buy cheap imported exploited shyte from asia. maybe if americans where truly patriotic they would buy american made at the price it costs to make and maintain a decent living wage for the workers.

[@joshb124]

@@kenkelly5848 I try to buy American made where possible. You’d be amazed how much time I spent trying to buy American flags that were legitimately made in the USA.

[@TheFatblob25]

Corporate profits & stockholder demands, & the dramatic wealth inequality in the USA that comes with it. We don't have a middle class that could afford to pay the price of domestically produced steel. We live in a global marketplace & it's a race to the bottom.

[@CJinsoo]

It can definitely be done and it’s not this nonsense of “race to the bottom”. The economics may not make make sense to most people, so I will simplify: China saves way too much and for their GDP, their real income per capita is still quite low, i.e., their people should be much wealthier than they are based on their GDP. If their wealth increased an exchange rates moved more freely, they would consumer more and U.S. would manufacture and at home more and export abroad. The CCP is a huge obstacle because they pursue stability through GDP growth and prevent real income from rising. also, CCP is not a worker’s utopia and the people save so much in part because CCP provides little entitlement services. rather than impose massive tariffs the U.S. could impose a tax on sovereigns who hold treasuries. either tax will generate a ton of money that we keep and can reinvest in our industries, or CCP will reduce holdings of treasuries and promote domestic investment and domestic consumption. also, i am really over-simplifying here, but essentially the issue isn’t trade per se, it’s that countries in Asia, especially CCP over-save and do not allow or promote enough consumption.

[@agxryt]

Yeah. And 5pm day ends, pensions, and straight-from-HS jobs. Everyone fantasizes about how hard these guys worked. These guys had it good. These were the best days of western manufacturing, before asshat corporations moved shit overseas to satisfy greedy investors. We screwed over the workers to satisfy those buy stock.

[@johnhung1063]

Watching from us steel on overtime.

[@strongbowism]

Enjoyed watching this video, seeing how they used to do it and the different processes of Steelmaking. I've worked in 3 different Steel Plants over the last 26 years. Currently I am a Melter/ Pulpit Operator on an EAF in the Uk. The basics are still the same but the technology, methods and safety side of it have moved on with much greater automation which over time has cost jobs unfortunately but has lead to a safer working environment.

[@stefanremund8596]

Weird to see all this heavy industrial equipment looking so new

[@74KU]

Even the video itself smacks of quality.

[@klepper00]

Nice film , excellent color !

[@jameswiblishauser9745]

very cool

[@daviddavenport1485]

Steel practically made America what it is today.

[@ericheine2414]

"Iron American Dream" on KZbin America was built on iron. Guns, ships, trains, automobiles, skyscrapers- basically judge the country by its metal.

[@ZenZaBill]

*And in our next lesson... austenite and martensite grain structures.*

[@garethdavies2538]

Together with the ever-popular "retained austenite."

[@Blazefork]

Wow did we used to be something! Lets bring it home again!

[@tuckergreen2818]

Proud 🥲 to be called “Steel Men’ WOW 🤩! How catching

[@stevehomeier8368]

Another great on Periscope!!! Thanks

[@shibsankar4569]

a generation of information in just 19 minutes hurrah

[@jimhaines8370]

Too much of metal is made in China and not enough here in the US we need to get it back for security and stability

[@AKAtheA]

2 main reasons why that is unlikely: 1) cost - there's simply no way US steel can be cheaper then Chinese, the cost of labor is several times as much 2) emissions - steel making is not very environmentally friendly process...lots of mining (ore, coal, limestone), coke and blast furnace gas production, converting (to steel), slag (although it's possible to use this in construction as aggregate) and last but not least, power to run all of this, which in the case of US is rather heavy on the coal side...all of these processes are very emissions intensive, dealing with those would push the cost up even more.

[@pon2oon]

@@AKAtheA Of course though, the emissions are still there regardless if you make it here, or buy it from some other country that makes it.

[@anonymoususer4937]

@@pon2oon You've never lived near an industrial area, I see. Localization of pollution is a thing, lol.

[@danielvroom2949]

Never going to happen as long as we have unions, OSHA, and EPA.

[@phuturephunk]

Nucor is an American company and one of the biggest Steel Producers in the world. We still make the best steel available here in the US, we just don't need nearly as much of it as when this video was made. Another aspect is that this video was made in a completely different era of industrial production. Most of the processes you see in this video have been automated to improve efficiencies. Like 1/10th the labor needs sort of automation. At one time more people worked in US Steel's Mon Valley Works than works in the ENTIRE company today. Different era...long gone.

[@ronboff3461]

my first job was as a metallurgist and industrial photographer at USS Research National Tube Division in Oakland in 1965 when Pittsburgh was the steel capital of the planet Earth!..by the mid 80s the unions made steel production in America uneconomical and China took over! i then moved to Westinghouse Research Atomic Power Division in Monroeville in the same position!...i got out in time and pursued photography as a career

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Sometimes i remember jeff quitney channel

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I think he moved to vimeo.

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[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

the real engine of our modern age. we will run out of men that can run these factories. 😮

[@rowanmoormann9532]

That's Really neat, Thanks for Sharing.

[@shawng7902]

Im a skilled man who manipulates the mechanical monster. I like the sound of that. Usually, just work in the pulpit. All the new guys look up and wonder " how do those people get that job". The higher the step the more it usually sucks.

[@robponton3181]

Excellent docu!

[@TheTomasio1975]

Exterior shots look like the Fairless plant in Fairless Hills, PA.

[@davidelkins3229]

Gary Indiana is where some footage was shot.

[@americanrebel413]

Awesome!

[@Pgcmoore]

outstanding!!!

[@TheWatersandwich]

Does anyone know which mill(s) were used in this footage?

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[@58fins]

The quarter panel stampings looked like '59 Chevy.

[@akkatfiresafety8567]

Good video

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Colours from film are much better than digitally captured, differences in analogue vs digital audio aren't as noticable. It makes me wonder how film would look if we continued to develop tape filming or audio recording to remove remaining distortion and other problems. This old videos are great at explaining things too.

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[@kelvintorrence5994]

Ice been hauling steel 4 15 year's and have hauled molds and never knew they poured steel into them for those use.

[@leeprice5284]

This was educational very informational love it.I wonder how much they made a hour?

[@gregorysabol4172]

I’m 72, but my Great Uncle was a melter at the Open Hearth - could have been the Homestead Mill near Pittsburgh. The men jokingly had a daily inquiry - “ Did you walk to work, or carry your lunch”? Think about it. They were not paid much. If you walked, then you could afford the Lunch Truck. If you carried your lunch, you could take the bus to work.

[@519CZRacer]

Could the narrator have been Russell Johnson (Gilligan’s Island)? I read he did a lot voice work in his later years.

[@gushollahbackatya1765]

FM locomotive shoving those bottle-cars

[@SpacePoolNoodle]

I like how there's casual sexism throughout the film

[@1978garfield]

I think USS is the only remaining old school steel outfit to have survived and kept its original name. Granted they went by USX for a few years after a mid 80's reorganization but went back to the old name and logo after a few years. The only other outfit I can think of that is still around is Armco but they got bought by the Japanese and changed their name to A&K Steel. Mini mills and imports have pretty much wiped out all the other steel producers. USS has bought Big River Steel, a mini mill, or as they describe themselves "A technology company that happens to make steel". I won't be surprised if at some point the integrated side (the traditional steel mills) of USS are spun off to the employees (along with the pension & environmental liabilities) and USS becomes a mini mill. Time will tell.

[@1978garfield]

BTW since I said this AK Steel/ Armco got bought out and is now Cleveland-Cliffs. On July 28, 2023, Cleveland-Cliffs executives sent a proposal to US Steel CEO David Burnett, to acquire the company for a total enterprise value of $10 billion, in a cash and stock deal. The proposal has been endorsed by the United Steelworkers, but was rejected by US Steel on August 13. I wont be surprised if those 2 get talking about a merger again in the next 5 years.

[@hippielewis4768]

Worked for U.S. STEEL mining the coal to make steel. Worked at Gary #14 mine in West Va. worst mistake ever made. Note: they were a good company to work for-it was a mistake because of my health in breathing the dust.

[@Ramash440]

Can't be too good a company if they didn't care enough about your health to the point you're having issues from breathing coal dust.

[@Nurhaal]

@@Ramash440 In the free market, you should know your risks before investing time and money. NFL Players get concussed while playing and we throw every curse word in the book at the League itself, despite the fact that the players getting KOed are getting paid in the top 10% of the world's salaries and are within the 1% if they have sponsor deals, and know full the risk of getting seriously hurt by playing a game that requires pads because of how hard you try to hit people - Risk vs Reward... take accountability for it.

[@RagedContinuum]

@@Nurhaal thanks for the dumb lolbertarian viewpoint

[@Nurhaal]

@@RagedContinuum I'm not wrong and you know it lol

[@CJinsoo]

realize you are talking about coal dust, but found this absolute gem of son interviewing his father on what it was like to work in USS Chicago Southworks mill. One of the dad’s quotes is so memorable: “The mill had a sign that said 99% dust free, but that 1%, wow!”

[@nyiloronikki160]

He sounds like Rod Serling !

[@johncholmes643]

I'm pretty sure that would be the equivalent of working in the hubs of hell.

[@vancepomerening4794]

Hey, it was a family wage job. Those men owned their own home and may have sent their kids to college.

[@ansol68]

You are quite right my friend. Tell all your children and friends to make sure they all go to college so they don't have to make a living doing this crap!

[@PowerTrain611]

This guy's voice was so common in all these sort of films from this era. Union Pacific's "Last of the Giants" even used the same music as this.

[@vancepomerening4794]

6:40 "and with only a glance". What no A.I. program and a robot ?!

[@phuturephunk]

3:39 Several times a day this dude with planetoid sized testicles of forged titanium pokes a hole in this scary machine to get the angry molten metal nougat out.

[@zacharyhinschberger2414]

Can't get more american and hardened professional looking than a dude taking a drag off a cig as he reads the temp and exhales "yep she's good" as he waves to the guys the order lol Days of bygone

[@TheDing1701]

Now I know how they worked such long hours: High grade coke.

[@FourthWayRanch]

Could u make steel in the back yard if u had to? Red dirt and charcoal.

[@bmitchizzle]

Why stop including the film vintage in the title?

[@billruss6704]

Where did they get the steel to make the machines that make the steel?

[@goober208]

MESTA MACHINE

[@VenomStryker]

What year was this made?

[@Kdschaak]

Looks like hell on earth.

[@AnalogueKid2112]

Kurt D A guy I know who used to work at a mill in Youngstown, Ohio said there was a banner above the door that read “Abandon hope all ye who enter here”

[@Carveaholic]

We have a saying here at the Cleveland Ohio mill. "We're all down here cause we're not all there."

[@bloqk16]

@Kurt D . . . this video made the steel mill in the US the picture of civility. Check out some of the other videos on KZbin of steel mills in China . . . so crude, filthy, bleak, and dismal, you'd think the mill operation was being done on the surface of the Moon.

[@manhoot]

Talk about steely resolve

[@anncodec]

Holy shit!!!! At 12:27 humans of earth feast your eyes upon these nubs,yes we have nubs just like on all the megalithic monuments and wall constructions on every continent of earth,,they were an advanced society with the lifting capacity and capability of today albeit 20000 years ago.Nubs remember the Nubs.

[@lewwallace5915]

Anyone knows what year this film is from?

[@sohbibendidani2062]

Can I send you a CV with 3 years experience in this field?

[@MichiganPeatMoss]

1960s film? Year possibly covered up by the time code.

[@mattstarr8203]

This is before continuing casting? ?

[@phuturephunk]

Yes, most of this was ingot production > Soak Pit > Rolling.

[@willliles2003]

Modern is strong and generous verbiage for this film,...perhaps in 1970? Worked for 6 years in a modern mill, the mechanical process is not much different than portrayed here however the safety measures and the automation is much better. Plus you can't smoke in the control rooms anymore 🤣

[@lisk3822]

I thought I was seeing things!

[@Kmaster2007]

Anyone know what the title of the music in the outro is called?

[@jamesomalley4556]

God & Country !

[@AckzaTV]

ur logo looks liek the BAYER logo lol

[@charlesballiet7074]

wow they guessed that one correctly look at the ship 14:38 looks kind of like a zumwalt class destroyer

[@sparkyadondavid]

It's a drawing of the nuclear powered cargo ship NS Savannah en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah. USS Zumwalt kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoCTYayuZqZ2hbM

[@tomliii8619]

Mudgun Technician.

[@rupertmiller9690]

Whistle Man, while appreciated by his coworkers, was not much liked for his improvisational jazz tooting.

[@markreeter6227]

My digestive system acts just like a blast furnace, especially after eating at Taco Bell.

[@th3f0x92]

Sounds like you could use some high grade coke.

[@pcmacd]

17:20 - galvanizing does not coat with TIN? It coats with ZINC??? DUH. DUH. AND DUH AGAIN. I used to work in this Gary, IN plant. I know of what I write.

[@chriswarner126]

Seems like way to many steps in production to be profitable.

[@tobygoodguy4032]

Olden daze ... prob JFK admin. (The thing is I shouldn't still be alive. 🤠)

What year this is from?

[@aitortilla6473]

Year?

[@AckzaTV]

ZINC!

[@steamboy9613]

9:46

[@AckzaTV]

ahhh back when we just named stuff what it was

[@edwardmwalker3767]

Wowy metels sure does make lots of things.☺💓Thats great.👍

[@nancytrien]

I am researching an environmental project. I need information about how a steel mill treats its chemical waste. Your help would be well appreciated .

[@cyrilhudak4568]

Google Mahoning River, Youngstown Ohio, superfund sites

[@nancytrien]

@@cyrilhudak4568 Thank you!

[@stacy3633]

The unions just sucked the blood right out of our steel industry , thanks guys for driveing our industry in the ground there are still a few left in out great country but its a year to year battle

[@DaveSmith-cp5kj]

Unfortunately true.

[@aaronbaird3533]

Simpleton's excuse.

[@booklover6753]

@@aaronbaird3533 How true Aaron. What else can you expect from people who are the products of Republican brainwashing though?

[@rrbone]

I know in my heart of heart that these men worked so hard so that one day a man pretending to be a woman would be able to beat all the women in swimming championships.

[@booklover6753]

Randy, most of us don't like that either but rant elsewhere dude.

[@rrbone]

@@booklover6753 wasn't a rant, more of a joke really.

[@edwardmwalker3767]

Wowy we sure do depend on this wonderful product steel.☺😐😶😯😕💓

[@edwardmwalker3767]

Hello.Golly Gee.This is so neato.I didnt know that dirt could be turned in to metels☺😐😶😯😕🌋⭐🌠⛅

[@edwardmwalker3767]

Is this how they made my car.🚗😕Now how about that.

[@manuelgalvan4191]

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[@edwardmwalker3767]

I didnt know that metel catches afire.That neighbor better watch his B.Q's.💓😕☺

[@edwardmwalker3767]

Hello.What is pot rolled?😕☺

[@edwardmwalker3767]

You mean they make all kinds of things out of scrap metels.I didnt know that?😲😐☺😶😯😕💻📱

[@marcstevens943]

The Steel Industry is a Pioneer and some of the biggest recycling programs in all of industry. Did you note how one of the main materials to feed the Steel Furnaces was mostly Scrap Steel?