CANTON, Ohio — The Ohio steel industry, led by a drilling boom in the gas and oil industry and a renewed demand for cars and light trucks, is growing again. Steelmakers across the state are racing to keep pace with plans to add a total of two million square feet of production space at a cost of $1.5 billion.
At the Timken Company’s mill here on Faircrest Street, orders for steel from domestic and export markets plunged so low in May 2009 that the plant operated just four days that month.
