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Investments Help Valley Communities Prosper Almost any time, day or night, steel coils that have been produced at the Mingo Junction Plant can be seen leaving the facility by truck, rail or barge. For Mingo Junction Village Mayor John Fabian, steel shipments from the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel plant are good news for the future of the village. “They are shipping a lot of steel and that is a great thing for the Village of Mingo Junction,” said Fabian. “We’ve seen Wheeling-Pittsburgh put its electric arc furnace here and then complete the installation of its automatic roll changers. People believe Wheeling-Pittsburgh is here to stay.” Follansbee Mayor Tony Paesano knows the impact Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel has had on his community over the years. “Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel has been a great corporate neighbor,” Paesano said. “When it was still Wheeling Steel it donated land for the park that is our crown jewel and more recently donated 30 acres of land that will have a great impact on this community and our children for years to come.” Paesano knows that even more important than its donations to the community has been the economic impact it has had through its investment in the Follansbee coke plant, now Mountain State Carbon, and the employment it provides. “Wheeling-Pittsburgh and now Mountain State Carbon have always had a very, very positive economic impact on Follansbee,” he added. “We really appreciate the contribution that the Company has made to the community.” Orphy Klempa is the co-chair for Project BEST, which is a construction industry labor-management organization encompassing over 500 contractors and 6,000 building trades craftsmen and apprentices in the Upper Ohio Valley. He says Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel’s capital projects, such as the EAF and No. 8 coke battery rebuild have had a huge impact on the building and trades craftsmen, with the Company spending about $105 million in craftsmen payroll. “All construction jobs are important, but it’s also nice to know that we’re working on projects like those at Wheeling-Pittsburgh that will keep well-paying steel industry jobs in this area,” Klempa said. “Those projects came along when our members needed the work. The economic impact that Wheeling-Pittsburgh has had in this valley has been enormous, but it’s really impossible to describe in just one word.”

Mayor Tony Paesano