Operating Units and Highlights
| Castings Division | Plants: Granite City, Illinois; Eddystone, Pennsylvania (until 1964) Main Office: |
Eddystone, Pennsylvania - the company's original headquarters, the plant produced castings for major industry including electric power, earthmoving equipment, shipbuilding, and some railroad products;
Housed the company's Manufacturing Research Laboratory (completed in 1960); Operations consolidated at the Granite City plant in 1964 Granite City, Illinois (former Commonwealth plant) - In 1960, produced engineered cast steel specialty products for rail industry including one-piece cast steel flat car underframes, cast armor, and manganese wear-resistant steel castings used in mining and crushing equipment and powers shovels; In 1970, produced "massive, high-strength pressure castings for steam turbine electric power generating plants, both conventional and nuclear fueled," produced cast steel products for railroads, including trucks for diesel locomotives and rapid transit and commuter cars, and wear-resistant castings for earth-moving equipment; Plant grew to 127 acres (0.51 km2) with 42 acres (170,000 m2) under roof; Division discontinuance announced December 14, 1972 |
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| St. Louis Car Division | Plant and Main Office: St. Louis, Missouri (acquired June 1960) |
Had been leading manufacturer of rail rapid transit equipment and produced specialized railroad cars such as commuter cars, chair and lounge cars, postal storage mail cars, baggage cars and cabooses and other products like aircraft loading bridges and passenger vehicles for airport transportation systems;
Orders from the New York Transit Authority total over 1,800 subway cars; Company acquired on June 30, 1960 and merged into the parent company to become a division on January 1, 1962; Division discontinuance announced December 14, 1972 and all production ended in 1973 |
| National Roll Steel | Plant and Main Office: Avonmore, Pennsylvania (acquired in 1955) |
Manufactured cast iron and cast steel rolls, in a range of alloys, weighing from 500 to 100,000 pounds, custom-made for steel mills to reduce and shape;
In 1974 was the company's largest division after the closure of the St. Louis Car division in 1973. Market Share of roll market: 1955: 2.7%; 1974 14.1%; The plant had 4 acres (16,000 m2) under roof and could ship 2,000 tons of plain and grooved rolls each month. |
| Flex-O-Lite Division | Plant and Main Office: St. Louis, Missouri Other plants: Paris, Texas; Keyser, West Virginia; DeSoto, Missouri; Canada; and West Germany |
Manufactured reflective glass products for highway and traffic safety; optical glass spheres for reflective sheeting; reflective line marking tape; Loc-Lens reflective sheeting; reflective paints; glass beads for industrial metal finishing and treatment |
| Ludlow-Saylor Wire Cloth Division | Plant and Main Office: St. Louis, Missouri Other plants: City of Industry, California and in Oakland, California operating as Star Wire Screen |
Manufactured woven metallic wire cloths and wire screen products ranging from .003-inch wire to 1-inch (25 mm) rod used in mining, crushing, petrochemical, construction, and food processing industries to grade, filter, sift, or classify product |
| Standard Pipeprotection Division | Plant and Main Office: St. Louis, Missouri Other plants: Alton, Illinois; Houston, Texas; Pittsburg, California; Kearny, New Jersey; Lorain, Ohio; and Hammond, Indiana |
Created by a series of acquisitions, the division manufactured protective coatings for gas, oil, and water pipelines and extruded plastic pipe for gas distribution and other pipeline installations |
| Simplicity Engineering Company | Plant and Main Office: Durand, Michigan Canadian plant: Guelph, Ontario |
Manufactured screening, crushing, and conveying equipment for processing and grading sand, gravel, crushed stone, and of foundry shakeout equipment |
| GSI Engineering Division | Based in Granite City, Illinois | The only non-manufacturing unit, started in 1973, engineered and designed railcar, locomotive trucks and suspension systems, provided consulting services to the transportation industry, and assumed the responsibility for licensing the company's products. |
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