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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 Ferrería, 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, India The rustless metallurgical marvel dedicated to ancient iron making traditions and blacksmiths of ancient India US Department of Energy Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC For 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 Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG Düsseldorf-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