“The latest and most notable addition to the
rolling capacity of [Lukens]… has been brought about in a large measure by
the tremendous rejuvenation of modern shipbuilding in this country, which has presented
new and enlarged demands upon steelmakers calling for the greatest widths of plates
obtainable under present day mill practice.”
“World’s Largest Plate Mill
Now Being Installed by Lukens Iron & Steel Co.”
The Iron Trade
Review, November 23, 1916
Lukens was able to manufacture marine boiler heads 15 feet in diameter from a single plate without welding, something that was never done before. Fireboxes and combustion chambers for locomotives were also made from the extra wide plates rolled on the 206” mill.
