Vindy investigates proposed Campbell steel mill project

CAMPBELL

When a Pittsburgh company announced its intention to build a multimillion-dollar steel mill where Youngstown Sheet & Tube’s Campbell Works once stood, some local and state officials were quick to laud steelmaking’s return to the Valley.

The company announced in June its plans to build a cold-rolling mill on 40 acres of industrial property it owns in Campbell. The company claims to have a four-phase plan to expand the mill on

70 acres of adjacent property in Youngstown.

The initial project would employ 700 people, and if subsequent phases are completed, the mill would employ 3,500, the company said.

“This will revitalize Campbell,” Campbell Mayor George Krinos said when the plans were announced.

Struthers Mayor Terry Stocker echoed that enthusiasm.

“Obviously there would be jobs available for everyone, like back in the old days,” Stocker said.

However, few of the elected representatives involved in the project appear to have investigated the background of Sherman International and its owners.

Read The Vindicator's investigation of the company and the project in Sunday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.