Youngstown — Automotive & Advanced Manufacturing & Reinvention in Youngstown

Youngstown was a steel town in the Mahoning Valley until the mills closed almost overnight in the 1970s, a collapse severe enough that it's still a reference point for Rust Belt decline. What's less known is that America Makes, the federal government's first manufacturing innovation institute, focused on additive/3D printing, is headquartered there — a deliberate bet on advanced manufacturing built directly on the ruins of the old industry, not a replacement of it.

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Youngstown Sheet & Tube Shut Its Brier Hill Plant in 1979, Part of a Collapse That Cost the Valley 50,000 Jobs. In 2013, a French Company Built a $1.05 Billion Pipe Mill on the Exact Same Ground — to Make the Exact Same Product.

Region Stats

Total firms 19

VC / investors 4

Companies 14

Schools 1

People 0

By Who For

Undetermined 8

Finance 2

Healthcare & Life Sciences 1

Defense, Intelligence & Government 1

Known For

Automotive

Advanced Manufacturing

Reinvention