Interior of Mesta Machine Company

1918-03-18

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Interior of Mesta Machine Company
  • Title
  • Interior of Mesta Machine Company
  • Identifier
  • MSP210.B006.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP210.B006.I02
  • Description
  • The Mesta Machine Company was one of the leading manufacturers of machine tool and steel mill equipment during the first half of the twentieth century. The plant, located about six miles from Pittsburgh, covered more than twenty acres and employed approximately three thousand employees, most of whom were skilled mechanics. Some of their products included, gas and steam blowing engines for blast furnaces, forging presses, shears, cut and machine-molded gears, and various types of rolls used in rolling mills. Mesta also manufactured various types of tooth gears up to 32 feet in diameter and 6 feet wide of air furnace melted cast iron, acid open-hearth steel, or alloy steel. The plant employed about 4,000 employees as late as the 1970s. In 1983 WHEMCO acquired the assets of Mesta Machine Company.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Mesta Machine Company (West Homestead, Pa.)
    Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--West Homestead.
  • Source
  • Mesta Machine Company Photographs, 1906-1925, MSP 210, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Mesta Machine Company Photographs
  • Rights Information
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