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Washburn Wire Company was located at 300 Bourne Avenue East Providence, RI It was an integrated producer of steel ingots, billets wire rod and wire used in automotive, industrial and other products. The production facilities included 2- forty ton electric arc furnaces which produced molten steel for casting into round cornered, square ingots. Secondary processing of ingots in a blooming mill these ingots were transformed into billets of various sizes Billets were then processed in the wire rod mills for sale or use in the captive wire mill in East Providence or Washburn's Harlem New York facility