Page 6/The Battalion/Tu'esday, October 25, 1983
Shutdown
Armco closes steel plant in Houston
United Press International
HOUSTON — Armco Inc.
announced Monday it will close
its Houston Ship Channel steel
plant, which as late as January
employed 4,200 people, and a
union leader who had tried to
save the facility called the deci
sion a “shock.”
Armco area vice president
George W. Hansen said the de
pression in the energy industry
and competition from imported
steel forced the move.
“The employees of the Hous
ton Works have made a tremen
dous effort to keep their plant
going, but the depression in
energy-related markets and the
flood of lower-priced imported
steel here have been too much,”
Hansen said.
Approximately 1,100 people
were employed at the plant as of
Monday, the date preparation
for the shutdown began, Han
sen said. The shutdown is sche
duled to be complete by Jan. 27,
1984.
United Steelworkers Local
2708 President Early Glowers
called the shutdown decision a
“shock,” but blamed federal
government failure to control
imported steel, not Armco.
“It reminds me of somebody
in the family dying. Itjust shocks
the hell out of you,” said
Glowers.
“I think both of us (labor and
management) tried our best. I
think the problem is in our gov
ernment. We could compete
with any steel mill, but we cannot
compete with governments that
are subsidizing their damned
steel mills.”
Glowers said American steel
workers have extended jobless
benefits under the Trade Read
justment Act, but he wonders
what they will do for work in the
long run. Houston unemploy
ment in September already
stood at 10 percent.
Hansen said Armco’s Hous
ton Works had operated at less
than 20 percent capacity this
year and lost nearly $40 million
so far in 1983.
“We cannot continue to sus
tain these losses and see no hope
that business in carbon and alloy
plate — Houston’s products —
will be profitable anytime soon,”
Hansen said.
In addition to the energy in
dustry recession and foreign
competition, Armco cited soar
ing energy costs and the cost of
pollution control as factors hurt
ing the Houston plant.
Hansen said Armco will con
tinue efforts to find a buyer for
the plant, but at the same time
will seek alternate employment
opportunities for active and
already laid-off employees.
“The employees have given
their very best to keep it alive,
and Armco will make every
effort to be sure they are all tre
ated fairly,” Hansen said.
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