The new coke: At Clairton, U.S. Steel invests in jobs and health

The Clairton plant takes coal and turns it into coke, an essential ingredient in steel. The new battery of coke ovens replaces a dirty, inefficient system from 1955, giving Clairton's 1,300 workers a new lease on life. Downstream in the steel-making process, another 1,400 company employees at the Edgar Thomson plant in Braddock and the Irvin plant in West Mifflin will get added job security now that Clairton will be able to turn out 960,000 tons of coke a year.

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