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Merit Steel Company

701 W Indiana, Kouts, IN 46347

ACTIVELAST SEEN IN FEDERAL DATA DEC 2025 · 5 SOURCES

Operating signal within 12 months from two or more independent sources.

WARN ACT NOTICE FILED WITH THE STATE
  • WARN notice effective MAR 26, 2020 · 81 employees · filed APR 13, 2020 · LO — recorded; it does not change the status

Notices filed with the state under the federal WARN Act, as the state publishes them, collected by the WARN Act notices feed (CC BY 4.0). A notice records what the employer told the state; it is not by itself proof that the plant closed.

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What they make

Steel Wire Drawing331222

Where it is

41.31753, -87.03197 · CENSUS TIGER
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Also at this address

No other federal record shares this street address.

Where this record comes from

5 sources hold this plant, and 8 fields on this page come from them. Each line is one agency’s own record of it: the identifier it is filed under, whether that record shows the plant operating or only that it exists, and when the register first and last saw it there.

EPA cross-references this facility in IN-FRS, IN-TEMPO, NPDES, RCRAINFO, TRIS · EPA site type STATIONARY.

  • OSHA injury and illness reportsOPERATING
    Record 909221 · first seen DEC 2025 · last seen DEC 2025
  • EPA ECHO compliance recordsOPERATING
    first seen NOV 2025 · last seen NOV 2025
  • EPA Toxics Release InventoryOPERATING
    first seen DEC 2023 · last seen DEC 2024
  • State WARN plant-closing and layoff noticesEXISTENCE
    first seen MAR 2020 · last seen MAR 2020
  • EPA Facility Registry ServiceEXISTENCE
    Record 110064147454 · first seen JUN 2016 · last seen JUN 2016

IN PORTER COUNTY8 other plants share this one’s industry (Steel Product Manufacturing from Purchased Steel, NAICS 3312); 3 of them have a size band on record.

What each source says

Every field below, as each source filed it. The value this page shows is marked; where the sources disagree, the field says so. Status is computed from independent sources; nothing here is self-reported unless marked Claimed.

Name
EPA: MERIT STEEL COMPANY · NOV 2026
Street address
EPA: 701 W INDIANA · NOV 2026
City
EPA: KOUTS · NOV 2026
State
EPA: IN · NOV 2026
County (FIPS code)
EPA: 18127 · NOV 2026
Coordinates
EPA: 41.317528,-87.031972 · NOV 2026
Employees (band)
OSHA: 20-99 · DEC 2025
Hazardous waste generator (RCRA)
EPA ECHO: LQG · NOV 2026

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