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11/27/2012
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Langeloth seeks to preserve crucial reliability, increase performance

The Langeloth Metallurgical Co. complex, located 25 miles west of Pittsburgh, Pa., is a world-class facility with a long history of products used mainly in the steel and chemical industries. The 147-acre facility has a roasting capacity of 35 million pounds of molybdenum per year.

Started in 1926 and owned by Thompson Creek Metals since 1993, the Langeloth facility’s history is full of firsts.

“This was the first facility to ever roast molybdenum concentrates,” Bob Dorfler, general manager, Langeloth Metals Co., said. “No other company in the United States offers the upgraded product line that we do. This was the first place that ferromolybdenum was made, the first site to commercially convert molybdenite concentrates to technical molybdic oxide by sublimation. Read More>>



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