Warren Steel - Timeline

Company is founded originally as the Copper-Clad SteelCompany

Engineers S. E. Bramer, Jacob Roth, F. R. S. Kaplan, Simon Loeb and William Smith, Sr. create the first permanent metallurgical bond between copper and steel in Rankin, Pennsylvania

Company changes name to the Copperweld Steel Company

The company takes over a former axe factory in Glassport, Pennsylvania opening their first facility as Copperweld

Company goes public for the first time

Company is listed on the New York Curb Exchange

Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange

Company ceases trading on the New York Stock Exchange

Copperweld opens second factory in Warren, Ohio to manufacture steel billets

Company acquires the Flexo Wire Co. of Oswego, New York

Copperweld enters into the steel tube manufacturing business with acquisition of Ohio Seamless Tubing Company of Shelby, Ohio

Company merges with stainless steel finisher Superior Steel Company

Company sells off Superior Steel Company after 5 years of poor performance

Company develops a second bimetallic product line, an aluminum-covered steel wire branded as Alumoweld

Creates the Japan Alumoweld Company of Numazu, Japan

Acquires the Chicago-based Regal Tube division of Lear-Siegler

Changes name to Copperweld Corporation

Opens a CCA wire manufacturing plant in Fayetteville, Tennessee

French holding company Imétal S.A. (today known as Imerys), acquires controlling interest of Copperweld Corporation

Company expands its bimetallic wire production to Campinas, Brazil

Announces the layoff of its Glassport, Pennsylvania facility along with 548 full-time jobs

Copperweld Energy is created

U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Copperweld in a landmark antitrust case

Glassport facility closes entirely

Oswego fine wire division shuts down

CSC Industries is created as a spin off from Copperweld's Warren, Ohio operation as a separate publicly traded company

CSC files for bankruptcy

Company spend $90 million to upgrade Shelby, Ohio plant

Copperweld and Fujikura announce a second joint venture together, the United States Alumoweld Company, to be located in Duncan, South Carolina

Company announces the building of a stainless steel tube plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Cleveland, Ohio-based LTV Steel acquires Copperweld Corporation from Imétal for $650 million

Company becomes the largest producer of structural steel tubing in North America with 23 plants employing 3,500 people

Company files voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code

LTV Copperweld emerges from bankruptcy

Owner sells the company for $22.5 million USD to Fushi International.

Warren Steel Holdings LLC is formed

Warren Steel hires first employees

Warren Steel announces a temporary shutdown of the facility, affecting around 150 employees

All power is shut off at the facility across all buildings, and Warren Steel permanantly shuts down

Warren Steel installs new electromagnetic stirrings on its caster

Warren Steel temporarily halts operations, when energy prices became too high.

Company is sued in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court by one of their large investors