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Kaiser Steel was a steel mill near Fontana, California, founded by Henry J. Kaiser on December 1, 1941. The plant's first blast furnace, "Bess No. 1" (named after Kaiser's wife) was fired up on December 30, 1942, and the first steel plate was produced in August 1943 for the Pacific Coast shipbuilding industry amid World War II. The facility was fully integrated, taking ore and producing steel at a single site, the only such steel plant on the West Coast. The Fontana facility produced about 75 million tons of steel over its history.

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  • Kaiser Steel was a steel mill near Fontana, California, founded by Henry J. Kaiser on December 1, 1941. The plant's first blast furnace, "Bess No. 1" (named after Kaiser's wife) was fired up on December 30, 1942, and the first steel plate was produced in August 1943 for the Pacific Coast shipbuilding industry amid World War II. The facility was fully integrated, taking ore and producing steel at a single site, the only such steel plant on the West Coast. The Fontana facility produced about 75 million tons of steel over its history. The mill was part of Kaiser's vertically-integrated business: iron ore was supplied by Kaiser's mine in Eagle Mountain, California using Kaiser's Eagle Mountain Railroad, coal was supplied by Kaiser's mines in New Mexico and Utah and limestone was from a Kaiser mine in Cushenbury, California, the steel produced was used by the Kaiser Shipyards and other Kaiser owned businesses (among other customers), and the Kaiser Permanente health maintenance organization was established to care for the workers at all the locations. During World War II, much of the plant's output was used up by the seven Kaiser Shipyards and the California Shipbuilding Corporation (which Kaiser had an interest in), which built hundreds of Liberty ships and Victory ships during World War II. Kaiser Steel was noted for making the most of its costly steelmaking inputs, and it captured, along with the U.S. Steel plant in Geneva, Utah, much of the Pacific Coast steel market by the 1950s. Over time, the plant's production would shrink, expand again during the Korean War, then shrink again, before Kaiser closed the mill in December 1983. A large portion of the land in Fontana was sold to create the California Speedway (now called the Auto Club Speedway), although a small portion of the steelmaking plant remains, now operated by California Steel Industries. (en)
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  • Dissolved, portion of plant nowCalifornia Steel Industries (en)
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  • Kaiser Steel was a steel mill near Fontana, California, founded by Henry J. Kaiser on December 1, 1941. The plant's first blast furnace, "Bess No. 1" (named after Kaiser's wife) was fired up on December 30, 1942, and the first steel plate was produced in August 1943 for the Pacific Coast shipbuilding industry amid World War II. The facility was fully integrated, taking ore and producing steel at a single site, the only such steel plant on the West Coast. The Fontana facility produced about 75 million tons of steel over its history. (en)
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