Atlas Steel Yousuf Karsh


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The money was the weekly pay for the 1,250 employees of the Atlas Steel Company, due to be paid Friday. The chief said $ 3,000 of the money was in United States currency. The payroll cash, in denominations of $1, $2, $5, $ 10 and $ 20 ordinarily reaches Welland every Tuesday evening, is kept if the post office overnight and is transferred to the bank the next morning.


Atlas Steel Yousuf Karsh

In Welland's history, its expansion was greatly helped by industrial enterprises that chose to make their homes in the area, both geographically and s.


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Dave Johnson / Torstar file photo. This file photo shows a pour at Valbruna ASW Inc. in Welland. Mayor Frank Campion said recent federal and private funding in the company marks a turning point for the steel industry in the Rose City. The steel industry in Welland is at a turning point, ready to start growing again, says Mayor Frank Campion.


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In 1939 the Canadian government invested millions of dollars in the facility to produce steel for World War 2 and by 1948 Atlas steels was regarded as the largest specialty steel company in the British Commonwealth employing 3000 people and exporting to 53 countries around the world.


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Scoping out a small factory originally known as the Canadian Atlas Crucible Steel Co. in Welland, situated within easy reach of both the railroad and the canal, Davis bought it in 1928 and renamed it Atlas Steels Ltd.


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The new headquarters on former Atlas Steel lands, has a price tag of nearly $14 million and will include a training tower. Welland Fire Emergency Services is planning to get at least 50 years.


The vast former site of the Atlas Steel Plant in Welland, โ€ฆ Flickr

Stainless Steel Flat Product. Stainless Steel Tubular Product. Stainless Steel Bar and Section. Carbon Steel Pipe and Fittings. Aluminium Product. Engineering Steel Bar. Quenched & Tempered and Carbon Steel Plate. Product Support Services. Atlas Steels Product Summary Guide.


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Shortly afterwards, Karsh found himself in Welland, Ontario, at the Atlas Steels plant. He had never photographed in an industrial plant before. The images would become Atlas Steel's 1951 Annual Report, and would join Karsh's work with Ford of Canada and Sharon Steel in the book Industrial Images. The official caption for this image read:


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Scoping out a small factory originally known as the Canadian Atlas Crucible Steel Co. in Welland, situated within easy reach of both the railroad and the canal, Davis bought it in 1928 and renamed it Atlas Steels Ltd.


Atlas Steel, Welland. 040F (fireless) 30" gauge Porter 7441 7/43

Atlas manufactured everything from bullet cores, gun barrels, anti-tank guns, to steel used in planes. The Second World War saw the number of workers increase to 3,000 in 1942 from 1,600 in.


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Valbruna ASW Inc. is a premier specialty steel-making facility located in Welland, Ontario, offering a unique combination of carbon, stainless, and other specialty steel making capabilities. Flexible steel refining methods include: argon oxygen decarburization, vacuum oxygen decarburization, vacuum degassing, and ladle metallurgical station.


Atlas Steel A trip to Welland in 2006 Chris Smart Flickr

Formerly known as Atlas Steels and later ASW Inc. after a number of changes in ownership, the company was purchased in October 2019 by Valbruna, a company headquartered in Italy that also has a facility in Indiana.


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Atlas Specialty Steels plant (Town of Welland, ON) Canada / Ontario / Saint Catharines-Niagara / Town of Welland, ON steelworks, closed


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Atlas Steels has been a supplier of specialty steels and alloys to Australian and New Zealand industry since 1939 and stocks a comprehensive range of product throughout it's 8 service centres across 5 states of Australia.


The vast former site of the Atlas Steel Plant in Welland, โ€ฆ Flickr

The history of Atlas Steel in Welland dates back to 1928, when Daniel W. Lanthrop and Roy H. Davis purchased the buildings, but the history of the property dates back even further, to 1918 when it was built as the Dillion Crucible Steel Alloy Company.


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Welland was shaped by companies like Union Carbide, United Steel and the Plymouth Cordage Company, in addition to three drop forges, a cotton mill, and the Atlas Steel Co., along with general manufacturing plants. In 1914, a local business called Empire Cotton Mills was bought by a Quebec -based company.

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