Mc Louth Steel - Gibraltar Complex

Gibraltar Complex

In 1954 McLouth announced the construction of a cold rolling facility in Gibraltar, Michigan, close to the Trenton Plant. This facility has a four stand continuous cold rolling strip mill, annealing furnaces, two skin pass finishing mills and other ancillary equipment for further processing of cold rolled steel coils.

The property the company acquired that was once owned by the Gibraltar Steel Corporation. The total area was around 900 acres (3.6 km2) of land along the river bordering Trenton. McLouth failed to get the proper financing to construct another integrated mill, so plans were drawn up for a stand alone cold rolling mill. Original plans called for five additional blast furnaces, but that was based upon the completion of the All American Channel. Without the channel, ore and coal haulers could not bring in the required raw materials.

There was a major fire that destroyed most of the pickling tower in 1970.

The plant was operated under Detroit Cold Rolling (a subsidiary of Detroit Steel) from 1996 after the McLouth sale until it was later sold to Steel Rolling Holdings in 2006. The plant has since been restarted by SRH.