A brief history of the steel plant :
1894 - Johnson Steel company was built
1898 - Lorain Steel Co.
1899 - 1st blast furnace was produced
1901 - 1904 - U.S. Steel
1904 - 1986 National Tube Co. - a division of U.S. steel
1926 - The first seamless pipe mill was added
1986 - USX Corp
!989 - 1999 USS/Kobe
1999 - Was split into two companies (Lorain Tubular & Republic technologies international)

Presently known as Republic engineering products