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February 25, 2008

Steel for Freedom Tower makes 4,700-mile journey

  • Steelworker Jim Brown sees the symbolism of each column going in at ground zero.
    • By AMY WESTFELDT
    Associated Press Writer

    NEW YORK — The steel bound for the Freedom Tower at ground zero travels thousands of miles, from a plant in Luxembourg where columns are rolled through casting machines at temperatures approaching 2,340 degrees.

    Scrap metal melted into liquid steel in an electric furnace is cast, heated, cooled and heated again at the ArcelorMittal steel mill in Differdange.


     
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