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What is it? Industrial steel award

PaGlenn

PaGlenn

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New Milford Penna
I got this at Perky auction in Pa Monday. I kind of decorate my place with industrial themes. I can't figure out what the cast iron piece is from. It appears to be made into a desk pencil holder. Usually when they give out factory awards they utilize pieces made at their factories.
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That is a miniature replica of a steel mold that is used in steel making!

Must likely given to some foreman or other worker for outstanding achievement.
Bobkatz
 
It is a model of the ingot molds that were used for steel production prior to the advent of continuous casters. As I remember the real deal made ingots that weighed in at 30 tons. They would have them lined up on the floor of the mill and filled them with steel from a ladle. When the steel cooled to red hot they pulled the mold up off the ingot using the hooks on the sides and then the ingots went to the hot mill for rolling and sizing. Now they pour molten steel into a continuous caster at a tremendous savings in energy and labor.
 
The company hired a former engineer from IH, who displayed an award "For Study in Fluid Dynamics". Later we found out it was for spilling a whole pitcher of beer at a company meeting.
 
To reheat cold ingots - they were put into soaking pits that reheated them to rolling temperatures.
The soaking pits were usually heated by coke oven gas from the coke making operations.
 
I hired in to Inland Steel in 1992.(Union) Our name has changed a couple of times. We are now the largest steel maker in the world. "Arcelor Mittal" I might be able to get info on the person and what the award is for. What ever it is a managemnet thing.
 
The Inland Steel Superintendent?s Club was an ?exclusive? club. Inland Steel in the 60?s and early 70? consisted of 44 Steelmaking Departments, along with another 20 Supplemental Departments (Trucking, Locomotive, plant Support, Field Services, etc.)
The head of each Department was the Superintendent. Then after that you had an Assistant Superintendent, then next in rank were the General Foreman, Assistant General Foreman, Foreman, Turn Foreman, and Leaders. OK, Yes they were ?top heavy? in the organization. Out of the 27000 to 30000 people working at Inland Only about 100 people were Superintendents. Above the Superintendent was 5 or 6 Managers (Manager of Operations, Manager of Finance, Manager of Human Resources, etc) and the General Manger. The GM reported to the owners and the board.

You got into the Superintendents club ONLY if you were an Assistant Superintendent or higher. Back then most people started on the floor and worked their way up. Even if you had a College Degree you might come in as high as a foreman or engineer, but then you worked your way up. What did being in the ?club? get you? They had a private golf course just south of Griffith Indiana with clubhouse. This was where many deals were made. Perks included getting just about any work needed at your house done by the top maintenance people of Inland. Even I had to go to Superintendents houses and fix their TV?s. I would be told the day before to where ?nice? clothes to work and not my mill clothes. Then we would take an unmarked truck and do ?service calls?. Back then the ?good old boys? club was the superintendents club.
 
(quoted from post at 17:49:11 02/04/16) The Inland Steel Superintendent?s Club was an ?exclusive? club. Inland Steel in the 60?s and early 70? consisted of 44 Steelmaking Departments, along with another 20 Supplemental Departments (Trucking, Locomotive, plant Support, Field Services, etc.)
The head of each Department was the Superintendent. Then after that you had an Assistant Superintendent, then next in rank were the General Foreman, Assistant General Foreman, Foreman, Turn Foreman, and Leaders. OK, Yes they were ?top heavy? in the organization. Out of the 27000 to 30000 people working at Inland Only about 100 people were Superintendents. Above the Superintendent was 5 or 6 Managers (Manager of Operations, Manager of Finance, Manager of Human Resources, etc) and the General Manger. The GM reported to the owners and the board.

You got into the Superintendents club ONLY if you were an Assistant Superintendent or higher. Back then most people started on the floor and worked their way up. Even if you had a College Degree you might come in as high as a foreman or engineer, but then you worked your way up. What did being in the ?club? get you? They had a private golf course just south of Griffith Indiana with clubhouse. This was where many deals were made. Perks included getting just about any work needed at your house done by the top maintenance people of Inland. Even I had to go to Superintendents houses and fix their TV?s. I would be told the day before to where ?nice? clothes to work and not my mill clothes. Then we would take an unmarked truck and do ?service calls?. Back then the ?good old boys? club was the superintendents club.
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It was pretty much the came in the auto industry. A lot of the trades guys worked on management's pet projects and homes.
 
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