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This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

I'm John Bachelor, Butler, Pennsylvania,

Salina Zito for writing for the Washington examiner,

contributor to the Wall Street Journal,

introduces us to the contradictions of manufacturing by America.

In Butler, Pennsylvania, there is the last of its kind. This is a production

of the Cleveland Cliffs Butler Works, making the grain-oriented cores that are part of the transformer system in America.

You know transformers, they look like barrels hanging up on poles.

Well, those transformers are our electric grid. I read from

wiki, a distribution transformer or service transformer, is a transformer that provides the

final voltage transformation in the electrical power distribution system.

I would say that's fundamental to the success of the United States of America.

Salina, very good evening to you, there's one place, one place in but there Pennsylvania that produces this

product and it's going away by regulation have I read that correctly you have read that correctly good You have read that correctly.

Good evening.

Thank you so much for having me on.

So this steel, this grain-oriented steel, has been making the transformers ever since transformers were first introduced as part of our electric grid.

They're a very important part of the cog of the supply chain of our electric grid and

there is a new Department of Energy

regulation that is about to be handed down that would force them not to

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