Open Hearth Era Begins at National Tube – Jan. 26, 1909

Here’s a neat article from 60 years ago commemorating an event that took place at National Tube Division, Lorain Works, 50 years before that.

The article is about the first heat poured from the new No. 1 furnace at National Tube on January 26, 1909. As the article noted, it was the beginning of the era of open hearth steel production at the plant.

Read all about it in the article below, which appeared on the front page of the January 26, 1959 Lorain Journal.

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I posted a great 1955 article about National Tube and the 60th anniversary of Lorain’s steel industry back here in 2012. The comments posted by readers about that article were great.