in 1947, mclouth steel began rolling stainless steel. two single stand reversing cold reducing mills were installed with the related supplementary equipment. in 1954, $6,000,000 of the $100,000,000 expansion plan for the new trenton plant was used to install two 4-high reversing cold rolling mills. with this new addition to the detroit plant, the stainless steel production increased to 52,000 net tons per year.