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schreiber Industrial Park (New Kensington, PA)
Site of Alcoa's New Kensington Works, 1891-1971. This was the first aluminum plant built by Alcoa (originally called the Pittsburgh Reduction Company) following the company's startup phase in Pittsburgh's Strip District. From about 1900 onward the plant specialized in finished and semi-finished aluminum products -- tubes, sheet, foil, cookware, seals, etc. Alcoa's Wear-Ever line of cookware was produced here.
schreiber Industrial Park (New Kensington, PA)
Site of Alcoa's New Kensington Works, 1891-1971. This was the first aluminum plant built by Alcoa (originally called the Pittsburgh Reduction Company) following the company's startup phase in Pittsburgh's Strip District. From about 1900 onward the plant specialized in finished and semi-finished aluminum products -- tubes, sheet, foil, cookware, seals, etc. Alcoa's Wear-Ever line of cookware was produced here.