U.S. Steel has said that the Mon Valley will soon see the improvements promised by Nippon Steel.

The U.S. Steel board approved the investment plans this week. The company will submit a permit for a new slag recycler at the Edgar Thomson Plant in Braddock.

That recycler will have to be approved by the Allegheny County Health Department, and should it be approved, the company will then finalize the engineering plan, with construction expected to begin in 2026.

The project is expected to cost about $100 million.

Nippon Steel pledges multi-billion-dollar investment in Pittsburgh

Earlier this year, the merger between Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel and Japan-based Nippon Steel was officially approved .

Nippon's Vice Chairman, Takahiro Mori, said in an open letter not long after the merger

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