Giarratani, Frank; Gruver, Gene; Jackson, Randall - In: Economic Development Quarterly 21 (2007) 2, pp. 148-164
Ten new steel plants were constructed in the United States from 1989 to 2001, each taking advantage of new steel slab casting technologies that gave scrap-based minimills access to the flat-products market. This market had been served previously exclusively by ore-based integrated mills. Some of...