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The Natrona operation melts grain-oriented steel as well as processing scrap metal and slag for Ludlum, a specialty steel-making company which is a subsidiary of Allegheny Technologies Inc.
The consolidation of the Natrona melt shop into the Brackenridge melt shop was part of a two-step process outlined by the company in a statement on Sept. 17.
The other step is the construction of a state-of-the-art hot strip mill at the Brackenridge Works, which is expected to cost $1.16 billion. Despite the name, the steel mill is in Harrison.
John Minich, ATI vice president of primary operations, emphasized that the project gaining approval Monday was not the hot strip mill construction.
"There's two different projects: the melt shop consolidation and the hot strip mill project," Minich said, when asked if the melt shop project is a precursor to the hot strip mill.
However, when it was mentioned in the Sept. 17 statement, the two were linked as being part of the same investment discussed by Patrick Hassey, ATI chairman, president and CEO.
"The consolidation of our grain-oriented electrical steel melt shop into our highly efficient and flexible Brackenridge, PA melt shop is expected to improve our cost structure by eliminating a plant footprint, improve our melt capacity utilization rates, increase overall productivity, and significantly reduce our particulate emissions footprint," Hassey said in the earlier statement.
Commission member David Mushrush asked if the company was closing the Natrona operation.
"We will idle the melt shop," Minich said. "It will still be Allegheny Ludlum property. We'll still own it."
The project is expected to start in December and end in December 2010.
Minich said there will be at least two buildings or building additions constructed as part of the project
Commission members, particularly Janice Rawe who lives just off Sycamore Street, which borders the plant, asked about noise and dust from the construction that might affect the neighborhood.
"None of the construction will be adjacent to Sycamore," Minich said. "There shouldn't be any change from what you are used to."
Township engineer Ray Antonelli questioned if parking would be adequate due to possible expansion of the work force, and if additional storm runoff generated would pose a problem.
Minich said the work force would remain the same, therefore there is no need for additional parking.
On the runoff issue, Antonelli was satisfied that any additional runoff would be channeled into a sewer main on the Ludlum property that runs directly to the Allegheny River.
"It's what we call a 'no harm' scenario: there's nobody living downstream, so it's not like they are putting more runoff on somebody's property," Antonelli said.
He recommended approval of the project, which now will go before the township commissioners for approval.
"I actually thought it was going to be a lot more complicated than it was," said Rich Korczynski, planning commission chairman.
"The thing is that this is all internal," commission member Joe Poskin said, referring to the construction being all within the Brackenridge Works property.
He said that's a lot different than the Wal-Mart project for example, in which traffic flow and control and runoff being channeled into neighboring residential areas were concerns.
Tom Yerace can be reached at tyerace@tribweb.com or 724-226-4675.
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