Sen. Sherrod Brown Meets with Steelworkers at Cleveland-Cliffs Weirton
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves hosted Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown at its Weirton facility in Weirton, WV. Brown led successful bipartisan efforts to push the Department of Energy to overhaul its proposed rule that would have required all electrical distribution transformers to shift from the industry standard grain oriented electrical steel (GOES) cores to amorphous cores. Sen. Brown's influence helped make possible Cleveland-Cliffs' announcement that they would be building a new state-of-the-art electrical transformer production plant at the former tinplate mill.