Granite City

American  

noun

1. a city in SW Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri.

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Example Sentences

Steel notified about 800 workers at the Granite City plant that it planned to stop rolling slabs of steel from other plants into sheet steel.

From The Wall Street Journal

It said it now sees signs of rising demand that justify restarting one of Granite City’s two blast furnaces early next year to produce molten iron for steel.

From The Wall Street Journal

The company expects to add about 400 employees at Granite City to operate the blast furnace, raising the plant’s workforce to about 1,200, a person familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Granite City, located near St. Louis, has the capacity to produce about 3 million tons of sheet steel annually, but has operated below that volume for most of the past decade.

From The Wall Street Journal

The company idled one of Granite City’s furnaces in spring 2020 when Covid-19 shut down factories and construction sites.

From The Wall Street Journal