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Seattle’s Industrial Legacy: Nucor Steel Plant Tour
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As of 5:00 PM on July 17, registration for both tours is now closed. All randomly selected participants have been notified as of 12:00 noon on July 18. If you did not receive an email explicitly stating that you were selected to attend, unfortunately, you were not chosen.
We're thrilled to announce the final program in our Seattle's Industrial Legacy program series!
This steel plant, founded by the Piggott Family of PACCAR fame, was built in 1904 and started making steel in 1905. It was originally run as the Seattle Rail Car Company and then under a number of different names until the 1920s, when it was purchased by Bethlehem Steel. In the 1980s, it was sold to Seattle Steel, then to Birmingham Steel in 1991. When Birmingham Steel filed for bankruptcy in 2002, Nucor Steel purchased the assets. The facility near the Duwamish River, once proclaimed as “Seattle’s Little Pittsburgh,” has provided steel locally and for shipment throughout the Pacific Northwest, northern California, and Canada. The mill has the flexibility to produce 1.1 million tons of steel each year—primarily rebar and merchant shapes consisting of angle, flats, and channel. Join knowledgeable and passionate long-time employees on this behind-the-scenes plant tour.
How to Register
We have two tour dates set: August 8 and August 15. Both tours will run from 1-3pm.
Each tour date has a capacity for only 10 guests. To ensure fairness, we will use an online random picker to select 10 names from the full pool of registrants. If you have any questions, please contact our Community Programs Manager, Evan Bue, at [email protected].
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