Ohio Valley Industrial and Manufacturing News & Events Briefing — September 22, 2026

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Today's briefing brings you 2 stories across metals & materials and machinery & tooling from the plants, agencies and union halls of the Ohio Valley. Leading today: Flux Steel to retrofit Stark County mill, challenge Cleveland-Cliffs' monopoly on key transformer steel - The Business Journals.

metals

Flux Steel to retrofit Stark County mill, challenge Cleveland-Cliffs' monopoly on key transformer steel

Flux Steel plans to retrofit a Stark County mill to make grain-oriented electrical steel, which would affect a specific plant and the supplier mix for transformer steel in the region. The excerpt does not say what work will be done, when it will start, how many jobs are involved, or how Cleveland-Cliffs would be affected at the facility level.

The Business Journals

machinery

Program offering robotics courses for free at MCCTC

The story is about a free robotics course at a local career center. It points to workforce training, but the excerpt does not say it is tied to a specific plant, supplier, or industrial hiring need.

WKBN.com