Cascade Steel Rolling Mills
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Cascade Steel Rolling Mills is a steel plant in McMinnville, Oregon, United States that operates electric arc furnace (EAF) technology.
Location
The map below shows the exact location of the plant in McMinnville, Oregon, United States:
- Location: 3200 NE Highway 99W, McMinnville, OR 97128 US
- Coordinates (WGS 84): 45.228035, -123.163599 (exact)
Background
The Cascade Steel Rolling Mills plant began operating in 1968 and was acquired by Schnitzer Steel in 1984.[1] The plant sells its products to customers located in the western United States.[1] The plant typically uses recycled steel as its input material.
In 2015, Cascade Steel Rolling Mills was fined $7,099 for violating its water pollution permit.[2]
The Good Jobs First Violation Tracker Record lists the plant as having been fined $74,257 in 2018 for other environmental violations.[3]
In June 2019, 97 percent of the 280 workers at the plant voted to strike due to minimal wage raises and lacking benefits.[4]
In May 2021, there was a large fire that damaged equipment that halted production for a few months; the plant restarted its operations in August 2021.[5]
Plant Details
Table 1: General Plant Details
| Start date | Workforce size | Power source |
|---|---|---|
| 1968[6] | 415[7] | 100% net carbon free electricity[8] |
Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information
| Parent company | Parent company PermID | Parent company GEM ID | Owner | Owner company PermID | Owner company GEM ID |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radius Recycling Inc | 4295907880 | E100000130756 | Cascade Steel Rolling Mills Inc[9] | 4296356119 | E100000130775 |
Table 3: Process and Products
| Steel product category | Steel products | Steel sector end users | ISO 14001 | Main production equipment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| semi-finished, finished rolled[10][11] | billet, wire rod, rebar[10][11] | building and infrastructure, energy[11] | 2022[12][8] | EAF |
Table 4: Plant-level Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Capacity operating status1 | Electric arc furnace steelmaking capacity | Nominal crude steel capacity (total) |
|---|---|---|
| operating | 860[13] | 860[13] |
Table 5: Actual Plant-level Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)
| Year | EAF production | Other/unknown steel production |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | unknown | unknown |
| 2020 | unknown | unknown |
| 2021 | unknown | unknown |
| 2022 | unknown | unknown |
| 2023 | unknown | unknown |
Unit Details
Table 6: Electric Arc Furnace Details
| Unit name | Status | Start date | Furnace manufacturer and model | Current capacity (ttpa) | Current size (tonnes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unknown EAF (1) | operating[10] | 2005[14] | Fuchs EBT[14][14] | 860[13] | 100.0[15] |
Table 7: Electric Arc Furnace Feedstock Details
| Unit name | Scrap-based | % scrap | % DRI | % HBI | % sponge iron (unknown if DRI or HBI) | % basic/merchant pig iron | % granulated pig iron | % pig iron (unknown if basic/merchant or granulated | % other iron |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unknown EAF (1) | yes[6] | 99.00[16][17] | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | unknown | 1.00[16][17] |
Articles and Resources
Additional data
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Cascade Steel Company Profile". www.cascadesteel.com. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Loew, Tracy (2015-10-09). "McMinnville steel mill fined for lack of water testing". Statesman Journal. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Cascade Steel Rolling Mills, Inc". violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Goldstein, Jessica (2019-07-13). "Talks continue after workers at Cascade Steel Rolling Mills in Oregon vote overwhelmingly to strike". World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Schnitzer Announces Restart of Production at its Cascade Steel Rolling Mills and Agreement to Acquire Leading US Metal Recycler in the Southeast". www.businesswire.com. 2021-08-17. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Cascade Steel". www.cascadesteel.com. Archived from the original on 2022-12-08. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ↑ https://www.buzzfile.com/business/Cascade-Steel-Rolling-Mills,-Inc.-503-472-4181.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20230903171548/https://sustainability.radiusrecycling.com/downloads/Schnitzer_2022_Sustainability_Report.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-09-03.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20240125055739/https://www.cascadesteel.com/. Archived from the original on 2024-01-25.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220321101121/https://www.cascadesteel.com/about/manufacturing-process. Archived from the original on 2022-03-21.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20220204142444/https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.cascade_steel_rolling_mills_inc.d8fd42deddb2587aed41611068e66c40.html. Archived from the original on 2022-02-04.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20230524235330/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHOLlVOTCc4. Archived from the original on 2023-05-24.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20240912174202/https://www.oregon.gov/deq/aq/cao/wr/Pages/Cascade-Steel-Rolling-Mills.aspx. Archived from the original on 2024-09-12.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Vtt35CBVFAJFBDgan2a9_CW56EKOw6D/view?usp=drive_link.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ AIST_EAF_2023
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 https://sustainability.radiusrecycling.com/;AIST_EAF_2023.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ 17.0 17.1 (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20240903161929/https://www.cascadesteel.com/documents/mill/csrm-leed-letter-rc-2023.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 03 September 2024.
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