Thanks to Sen. Sherrod Brown, Cleveland Cliffs to Open Transformer Plant Along Ohio River
A new investment by Cleveland-Cliffs in Weirton will address the critical shortage of distribution transformers that is stifling economic growth across the United States. This investment will result in reemployment opportunities for 600 USW-represented workers from the indefinitely idled Weirton tinplate mill.
The new electrical transformer plant will also generate additional demand for American-made GOES, exclusively produced in the United States by Cleveland-Cliffs, at its Butler Works steel mill in Butler, Pennsylvania
United Steelworkers Local 2911 President, Mark Glyptis, added, “This investment by Cleveland-Cliffs will provide employment opportunity for the hard working, skilled Steelworkers of USW Local 2911. The new plant builds on Weirton’s proud legacy of steelmaking, and will establish our region as a hub for manufacturing of transformers needed to support the economic and national security of the United States.”
US Senator Sherrod Brown worked hard to have this administration change regulations to pave the way for this plant to open.
“Because of our work to correct the Department of Energy’s misguided transformer rule, we are bringing new industry and new jobs to the Ohio Valley,” Brown said. “Our government let down these skilled, dedicated Steelworkers by failing to enforce our trade laws – but we never gave up working to bring steel jobs back to this mill. I'll always fight for Ohio workers and the Ohio Valley, and I'll always stand up to any administration’s misguided policy that hurts workers and manufacturers.”