Historical Landmarks - ASM International

ASM Historical Landmarks

From the Iron Bridge to the Statue of Liberty, ASM Historical Landmarks identify the many sites and events that have played a prominent part in the discovery, development and growth of metals and metalworking. In 1987, the scope of ASM Historical Landmarks was broadened to include all engineered materials.

2021	Oregon Iron Furnace, City of Lake Oswego, OR ‘The first company in the United States to smelt pig iron west of the Rocky Mountains.’
2020	The Ames Project, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa‘The world’s first producer of reactor-fissionable pure uranium metal, enabling self-sustaining nuclear-fission chain-reactions and all of the technologies that they make possible.’
2019	Ferreria Mirandaola Ironworks, Spain‘Mirandaola FerrerÃa, integrated to the Territorial Museum LENBUR, provided work and economical livehood for over 500 years to the Iron Valley, as an economical engine for Legazpi and the Basque Country.’Pratt & Whitney Casting Laboratory Hartford, CT‘For the development and industrialization of directionally solidified columnar grain and single crystal casting alloys and processes for use for gas turbine engine components.’
2018	Materion Elmore, Elmore, OH‘Materion’s Elmore plant began producing beryllium and beryllium copper alloys in 1953. These materials have contributed to significant innovations in the aerospace and defense, information technology, automotive, and telecommunications industries.’
2017	Weld Mold Company, Brighton, MI‘For the development of the flood welding process, which facilitated the repair of steel alloy forging dies, thereby extending their lifetime and productivity.’
2016	Alcoa Inc., Alcoa, TN‘For being the primary supplier of aluminum heat-treated sheet and structural members for aircraft during World War II, and for playing a significant role in the sustainability and recycling of aluminum can sheet.’Quincy Smelting Works (QSW), Ripley Franklin Township, MI‘The Quincy Smelting Works is uniquely capable of interpreting the final stage of copper production for one of the few native copper ore mining regions on earth.’
2015	Park Metallurgical/Heatbath Corporation, Detroit, Michigan“At the forefront of expanding the business and science of metal working, Park Chemical’s contributions to metallurgical advancements began here in Detroit, Michigan by visionary ASM Founder/President, William Park Woodside.”Scranton Iron Furnaces, Scranton, Pennsylvania“The Scranton Iron Furnaces spurred the nation’s industrial revolution in iron and coal through the use of anthracite. Locally produced rails contributed to the growth of America’s 19th century railroads.”
2014	Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd, Kingston, Ontario, Canada“At this site, men and women shaped aluminum from war-time need to peaceful use, learning its secrets, and developing new applications for the future.”Oerlikon Metco, Westbury, New York“The first family of exothermically reacting; self-bonding intermetallic forming compounds used by the thermal spray industry for improved surface protection properties was developed at this site. Process and materials were commercialized between 1965-1972.”
2013	The Delhi Iron Pillar, New Delhi, IndiaThe rustless metallurgical marvel dedicated to ancient iron making traditions and blacksmiths of ancient IndiaUS Department of Energy Savannah River Site, Aiken, SCFor advancing the materials technologies necessary to produce tritium, plutonium, and other isotopes for national defense, research and medical applications.The World’s Heavy Hydraulic Closed-Die Forging Presses Alcoa, Cleveland, OH Alcoa, Russia PCC Wyman Gordon, Grafton, MA Aubert Duval, France Weber Metals, Paramount, CA VSMPO, Russia These giant presses enabled quantum changes in the approach of modern aircraft design by producing large, forged monolithic structures. In turn, this capability provided designers with greater flexibility in the application of new alloys; lighter, stronger, and affordable aerostructures; and more powerful and fuel efficient gas turbine engines.
2012	Sponge Iron Powder Production, Riverton, NJ
2011	The Milk House, Electron Energy Corporation Landisville, PA Open Coil Annealing (OCA Operations) AccelorMittal Dofasco, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2010	Metcut Research, Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio Cherry Valley Coke Ovens Leetonia, Ohio USS Monitor off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
2009	ASM International Headquarters Building and Geodesic Dome Materials Park, Ohio
2008	CoorsTek, Inc. Golden, Colorado Beehive Coke Ovens Various Southwestern Pennsylvania locations
2007	The H.L. Hunley Submarine, North Charleston, South Carolina “In the context of naval warfare, H.L. Hunley changed the world. Its builders? innovative use of materials, design and manufacturing techniques resulted in the world?s first successful attack submarine.” ATI- ALLVAC, Monroe, North Carolina “For pioneering achievement in Vacuum Induction Melting of nickel-based superalloys in this facility September 19, 1957.”
2006	The Liberty Bell Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Phoenix Iron & Steel Company Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
2005	Ladish Co., Inc., Cudahy Forge Division Cudahy, Wisconsin Burden Iron Works Troy, New York
2004	The Caterpillar Tractor at Haggin Museum Stockton, California
2003	The Eli Whitney Armory Hambden, CT L’Anse aux Meadows Newfoundland, Canada Populonia – Isola d’Elba Tuscany, Italy
2002	Outokumpu Flash Smelter Helsinki-Espoo, Finland AltaSteel Ltd. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2001	The Ohio Crankshaft Company Cleveland, Ohio
2000	Hendrichs Forge Solingen, Germany Covington-Cincinnati Suspension Bridge Covington, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory West Mifflin, Pennsylvania
1999	Polymeric Materials Laboratory Milan, Italy
1998	LD-Vessel Number 1 Technical Museum of Vienna Vienna, Austria Speedway Laboratories Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana Heroult Electric Arc Furnace for Smelting Iron Town of Heroult Shasta County, California
1997	Latrobe Plant Allvac-An Allegheny Teledyne Company Latrobe, Pennsylvania William Tod Steam Engine Former Youngstown Sheet & Tube Breir Hill Works Youngstown, Ohio
1996	48″ Grey Mill Bethlehem Steel Corporation Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Forge of Fontenay Bourgogne, France Freedom Forge Standard Steel Burnham, Pennsylvania
1995	“Little Giant” Universal Testing Machine Tinius Olsen Testing Machine Co., Inc. Willow Grove, Pennsylvania Metals Technology Laboratories CANMET Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Greenwood Furnace Greenwood Furnace State Park Greenwood Furnace, Pennsylvania
1994	Wayne State University Metallurgical Engineering Laboratory Detroit, Michigan Tannehill Ironworks Birmingham, Alabama Jeffery/Champion Spark Plug Mine Mono County, California Edgar Thomson Plant Braddock, Pennsylvania
1993	Mound Laboratory EG&G Applied Mound Technologies Miamisburg, Ohio Materials Science & Technology Division Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D.C.
1992	Watervliet Plant AL Tech Specialty Steel Corp. Colonie, New York Electric Arc Furnace The Museum of Science & Technology Milano, Italy Bethforge Division Bethlehem Steel Corporation Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1991	Research Center Armco Inc. Middletown, Ohio AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey Research Laboratories Corning Glass Works Corning, New York Watervliet Arsenal U.S. Army Watervliet, New York
1990	Mannesmann Piercing & Pilger Mills MannesmannrÃ¶hren-Werke AG DÃ¼sseldorf-Rath, Germany Electric Arc Furnace Deutsches Werkzeugmuseum Remsheid, Germany Aluminum Research Laboratories Aluminum Company of America Alcoa Center, Pennsylvania Clydach Refinery Inco West Glamorgan, South Wales Air Force Materials Laboratory Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio
1989	AC Spark Plug Division General Motors Corporation Flint, Michigan Research & Development Center Carpenter Technology Corporation Reading, Pennsylvania DSV Alvin Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, Massachusetts The Eiffel Tower Paris, France Mill for the Production of Nickel-Base Alloys Inco Alloy International Huntington, West Virginia Oliver Chilled Plow Works South Bend, Indiana Ytterby Mine Resaro Island Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden
1988	Brownsville, Route 40 Bridge Brownsville, Pennsylvania Building 228, Experimental Station E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co. Wilmington, Delaware Electric Arc Furnace Daido Steel Company Ltd. Nagoya, Japan Ipanema Iron and Steel Works Sao Paulo, Brazil Kure Beach Marine Atmospheric Test Facility LaQue Center for Corrosion Technology Kure Beach, North Carolina Massena Plant Aluminum Company of America Massena, New York Metallurgy Division National Bureau of Standards Gaithersburg, Maryland Metalworking Furnaces Mission San Juan Capistrano San Juan Capistrano, California Michigan Copper Country Coppertown Museum Calumet, Michigan Building “2-0-2” Northrop Aircraft El Segundo, California Radwerk IV Blast Furnace Vordernberg, Austria Paul Revere’s Copper Rolling Mill Plymouth Rubber Co., Inc. Canton, Massachusetts Sudbury District Ore Body Sudbury, Ontario, Canada Research Institute for Iron and Steel Tohoku University Sendai, Japan Zinc Distillation Furnace Zawar mines, India
1987	Maramec Iron Works St. James, Missouri Argonaut Building General Motors Research Laboratories Detroit, Michigan
1986	Forest Hills Research Laboratories Westinghouse Electric Corporation Forest Hills, Pennsylvania La Farga de Ripoll Ripoll, Spain Magnesium Production, Dow Chemical Company Midland, Michigan Metals Research Laboratories, Elkem Metals Company Technology Center Niagara Falls, New York Statue of Liberty New York Harbor, New York Sloss Furnaces Birmingham, Alabama
1985	Blaenavon Iron Works Blaenavon, Wales Col. Frishmuth’s Foundry Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Elwood Haynes Museum Kokomo, Indiana
1984	The Iron Bridge Telford, Shropshire, England Hashino Blast Furnace Relics Kamaishi City, Iwate, Japan Albany Research Center, United States Bureau of Mines Albany, Oregon World’s First Hot and Cold-wall Hot-Isostatic-Processing (HIP) Vessels Battelle Columbus Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
1983	Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center Watertown, Massachusetts The Cast Aluminum Cap on the Washington Monument Washington, D.C. Reed Gold Mine Cararrus County, North Carolina
1982	Acheson Graphite Company Niagara Falls, New York New Almaden Quicksilver Mine New Almaden, California Palacio de Mineria Mexico City, Mexico
1981	Lukens Steel Corporation Coatesville, Pennsylvania
1980	John Winthrop Jr. Blast Furnace West Quincy, Massachusetts
1979	America’s First Bessemer Steel Mill Wyandotte, Michigan Eads Bridge St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Louis, Illinois Discovery of First Economical Process for Electrolytic Extraction of Aluminum Oberlin, Ohio Pittsburgh Works of the Pittsburgh Reduction Company Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Free Institute of Industrial Science Worcester, Massachusetts Saugus Iron Works Saugus, Massachusetts Experimental Breeder Reactor I Idaho Falls, Idaho
1978	Blast Furnace #1 Fundidora Monterrey, S.A. Monterrey, Mexico Cradle of Alloy Steel Republic Steel Corporation Canton, Ohio First Basic Oxygen Furnaces in the Western Hemisphere Dofasco Melt Shop Hamilton, Ontario, Canada First HYLSA Sponge Iron Plant HYLSA, S.A. Monterrey, Mexico General Electric Company River Works Lynn, Massachusetts Grumman Aerospace Corporation Bethpage, New York #1 Vacuum Induction Melting Furnace Special Metals Corporation New Hartford, New York
1977	Atlas Steel Concast Machine Atlas Steels Company Welland, Ontario, Canada Les Vieilles Forges St. Maurice Quebec Historical Monuments Commission Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada Waterbury Brass Company Mill City of Waterbury, Connecticut
1976	Location of the First Steel Converter (Kelley Steel Converter) Bethlehem Steel Corporation Johnstown, Pennsylvania Cornwall Iron Mine and Furnace Bethlehem Steel Corporation Cornwall, Pennsylvania Western Electric-Allentown Works American Telephone & Telegraph Western Electric Division Allentown, Pennsylvania All-Welded Test Boiler Drum Combustion Engineering, Inc. Metallurgical Laboratory Chattanooga, Tennessee Tredegar Iron Works Ethyl Corporation Richmond, Virginia Climax Mine and Mill Complex Climax Molybendum Company Division of AMAX, Inc. Climax, Colorado Tremont Nail Company Tremont Nail Company Wareham, Massachusetts Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine State of Connecticut HistoricalCommission East Granby, Connecticut Iron Ranges of Minnesota Iron Range Interpretive Center Chrisholm, Minnesota Ford Tri-Motor Airplane Island Airplanes Port Clinton, Ohio
1975	First Continuous Sheet Rolling Mill Armco Steel Corporation Ashland, Kentucky
1973	Graphite Reactor Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee
1972	Electric Furnace Crucible Specialty Metals Division Colt Industries Syracuse, New York