JLE Industries invests more than $6 million in former Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel facility

According to recent news reports, Dunbar, PA-based JLE Industries has invested more than $6 million in the former Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel facility to help transform it into an 80,000 square-foot natural gas pipe inspection plant.

Workers will be charged with performing X-rays of natural gas-carrying pipes to ensure they are free from defects.   Pipes that are determined to be without defects will be returned to drilling sites; those which do have defects will be transported to a facility that will rethread them.

The plant is expected to open in January 2016.