I'm not familiar with the "drap" verbiage. If the plant you visited had smelters for steel it was mostly likely a large integrated mill and you were in the melt shop/LMF section. I think ATI (stainless sheet) has or had a plant in Midland, PA.

Continuous hot-dipped galvanizing lines are smaller in comparison. If the plant you visited had a pot/kettle that they were feeding zinc ingots into then it was a HDG line.

I work for a galvanizing line (continuous HDG for steel sheet, not just dipping in a kettle) so your comment caught my attention. We typically use the 1 ton ingots to replenish our bath. Between my line and our two sister lines in the area we're probably using 50+ tons a day.

What did Horsehead make at that plant? Ingots, shot? I assume they had a few smelters.

Damn that's a beautiful facility. Largest project of it's kind in the country for a period of time.

I begrudgingly voted for Fetterman since I usually vote independent candidates, but only did so after this debate. For Oz to badger the guy into a debate knowing he would perform poorly was a complete dick move but I gave a lot of credit to Fetterman for showing up.

On the other side, Oz calling to concede and congratulation Fetterman post-election was a surprisingly classy move, especially in a time where that typically doesn't happen if the Republican is the one who needs to concede.

Lol I went to Catholic grade school with him too...definitely no surprise for me, either.