Youngstown Plant Produces Special Steel Pipe for Drilling

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More than two and half years ago V&M said they would build a new $650 million steel pipe plant in Youngstown, Ohio and create 350 new jobs (see this MDN story). The new plant would manufacture steel pipes used in Marcellus and Utica Shale drilling. Last week the first pipe to be produced at the promised plant rolled (pun intended) off the production line. But just what kind of pipe is V&M making for the shale drilling industry? A special kind of pipe called OCTG...

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