Jones and Laughlin Steel Company

Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
FormerlyAmerican Iron Company
Company typePrivate
IndustrySteel production
Founded1852 (1852) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
FoundersBernard Lauth
Benjamin Franklin Jones
Defunct1968 (1968)
FateAcquisition
Headquarters
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
RevenueDecrease$903.6 million (1968[1])
Decrease$35.8 million (1968[1])
Total assetsDecrease$1,092.8 million (1968[1])
Total equityIncrease$703.9 million (1968[1])
Number of employees
Decrease39,531 (1968)
ParentLTV Steel
Footnotes / references
Financials via the Fortune 500's 1968 historical database. 1968 was J&L's final year before its acquisition.[1]
Stack array of the Jones and Laughlin Pittsburgh Works on the south side of the Monongahela River, 1955.

The Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation , also known as J&L Steel or simply as J&L, was an American steel and iron manufacturer that operated from 1852 until 1968. The enterprise began as the American Iron Company, founded in 1852 by Bernard Lauth and Benjamin Franklin Jones, about 2.5 mi (4.0 km) south of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River.[2] Lauth's interest was bought in 1854 by James Laughlin.[3] The first firm to bear the name of Jones and Laughlin was organized in 1861, and headquartered at Third & Ross in downtown Pittsburgh.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b c d e "FORTUNE 500: Jones & Laughlin Steel". CNN Money. Fortune 500. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Family's Fourth". Time. No. April 13. 1936-04-13. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
  3. ^ Ingham, John N (September 1983). Jones, Benjamin Franklin (book). Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-23908-3. Retrieved 2008-09-30.
  4. ^ "Executive Order 10340". Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum. Archived from the original on 10 April 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  5. ^ "Jones-Laughlin Steel to be Reorganized" (PDF). The New York Times. 6 December 1922.