EID's Shawn updates one of EID's post from around a year ago, when steel manufacturing emerged once again in Ohio thanks to shale development:

"UPDATE (11/5/2012, 11:00 am ET):  As we reported almost a year ago, companies throughout Ohio have see a new resurgence in the need of steel thanks to the development of shale.  Since then, Ohio’s steel plants have been busy building or retrofitting plants to retool their products for the increased demand due to expanding oil and gas development throughout the United States.

Just today, V&M Star announced they have produced their first tubular steel pipes to be used in oil and gas development.  The state-of-the-art mill cost $350 million and will create new 350 jobs.  The new mill will have initial production capacity of 350,000 tons of seamless pipe per year.

With the first continuous production achieved on October 26^th, V&M Star is on target to begin sales early next year.

This is great news for the citizens of Youngstown, who have been anxiously waiting the project coming to fruition since it was first announced in 2010. When the project began V&M was concentrated on Marcellus development in Pennsylvania.  Now, with exploration of Ohio’s own Utica Shale, V&M will also be supplying Ohio-made steel for Ohio energy development.

—Original post from November 25th, 2011—

Two articles ran this weekend touting the reemergence of the steel industry in Ohio and the thousands of family-supporting jobs it supports — in large part thanks to the development of American energy resources from shale.  The articles were appropriately titled “Republic Steel to add 450 jobs to Lorain as oil and gas exploration...” and “TMK Plant Poised for Shale Drilling Boom”.  Steel has always been an important component of Ohio’s economy.  It is what made the Cleveland area and Ohio River communities thrive during the 20^th century until the 70’s and 80’s when America’s steel industry declined."

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