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.
Youngstown lost 57% of its population after its steel industry collapsed in the late 1970s. Decades later, a seamless-steel-tube mill went back up on the site of one of the mills that closed — literally the same ground, the same product — and it's still expanding today. The jobs never came back at anything like the old scale.
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