The reborn company employs over 260 hourly and 100 salaried workers in the area.
It owned two electric-arc furnaces, and owned mills in Alton, Illinois, Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, Vandalia, Illinois and Benwood, West Virginia.
Its products included strip, hot rolled bars, wire, pipe, structural tubing and plate.
Laclede was one of the companies contracted by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to supply steel for construction of the World Trade Center in 1967.
[4] Working in the steel mill was featured in an episode of Dirty Jobs.