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Anthony R. Bridge
Vice President-Operations, East
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Anthony R. Bridge earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial
management from Purdue University’s Krannert Business School in
Lafayette, Ind., in 1976; a bachelor’s degree in electrical
engineering from Purdue University at its Calumet Campus in Hammond,
Ind., in 1991; and a master’s degree in business from Indiana
Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind., in 2004.
Mr. Bridge joined U. S. Steel in 1998 as area manager of the No. 13
blast furnace – U. S. Steel’s largest blast furnace – at Gary Works
in Gary, Ind. He advanced to division manager of iron producing in
1999 and to plant manager of primary operations in 2001.
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In 2003, Mr. Bridge was transferred to Pittsburgh headquarters when
he was named managing director-blast furnace engineering &
technology, where he was responsible for the technological
development, operation and maintenance of U. S. Steel’s blast
furnaces around the world.
Mr. Bridge was elected vice president-engineering & technology in
2005, with responsibility for research and development activities at
the company’s Research and Technology Center in Munhall, Pa.,
Automotive Center in Troy, Mich., and a research facility in Košice,
Slovakia; engineering for domestic and international operations; and
blast furnace engineering and technology companywide.
In March 2008, Mr. Bridge was appointed to his current post and is
responsible for directing operations at Great Lakes Works in Ecorse
and River Rouge, Mich.; Mon Valley Works, which includes the
Clairton Plant, the Edgar Thomson Plant and the Irvin Plant near
Pittsburgh as well as the Fairless Plant outside Philadelphia; and
U. S. Steel Canada, which includes Hamilton Works in Hamilton,
Ontario, and Lake Erie Works in Nanticoke, Ontario.
Mr. Bridge began his career in the steel industry with Inland Steel
in East Chicago, Ind., in 1976 and moved through a series of
supervisory and management positions in ironmaking operations. In
1995, he moved to Rouge Steel in Dearborn, Mich., as superintendent
of ironmaking, a position he held until joining U. S. Steel in 1998.
Mr. Bridge serves on the board of the Pittsburgh Technology Council
and the National Aviary. He is a member of the executive committee
of the Association for Iron and Steel Technology.
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