A. Finkl & Sons (Finkl Steel Chicago)
Large load · 1355 E 93RD ST, Chicago, IL
Finkl Steel's plant on East 93rd Street on Chicago's South Side is a specialty electric arc furnace melt shop and forge making tool and die steels and open-die forgings. It is part of Swiss Steel Group. The melt shop poured its first heat in 2011 when A. Finkl & Sons moved from its Lincoln Park site, and the plant has its own electric substation. It is a small steel mill by emissions and no public source gives its power demand or supply arrangement.
Overview
A. Finkl & Sons ordered a new electric melt shop from SMS Demag in 2008, with an AC electric arc furnace and a ladle furnace, for a new South Side site. The 90-ton furnace poured its first heat on June 2, 2011. Melt shop size is a furnace rating, not a measure of the site's electricity demand.
Profile
- Moving production to 93rd Street, with its own substation
- By January 2013 Finkl was phasing out its Lincoln Park plant and had spent more than $180 million equipping the 53-acre South Side site for melting, forging and machining. The new plant was built with its own electric substation and was planned to raise production fivefold to half a million tons of steel a year.
- Part of Swiss Steel Group
- Finkl Steel is a Swiss Steel Group company. It makes forging die steels, plastic mold steels, die casting tool steels and custom open-die forgings, processing over 200,000 tons of steel a year across production sites in Chicago, Detroit, Houston and Quebec, with melt shops in Chicago and Sorel, Quebec.
Facility
- Activity
- Forging die steels, plastic mold steels, die casting tool steels and custom open-die forgings
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Site type
- Facility
- Operating status
- Operating
Related records
Timeline
- Apr 4, 2008
- Finkl orders a new electric melt shop for a Chicago South Side site.
Finkl Orders New Electric Melt Shop | New Equipment Digest
- Jun 2, 2011
- First heat at the new 93rd Street electric arc furnace.
First Heat in 100 Years for Southside Chicagoland Steel - Association for Iron & Steel Technology