PITTSBURGH, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Pitt-Des Moines, Inc. (AMEX: PDM)
today announced plans for its wholly owned subsidiary, PDM Strocal, Inc. to
begin construction of a new structural steel fabricating facility in the
Southwestern part of the United States.
    The new facility is expected to be operational in the third quarter of
1997.  The new facility will expand the capabilities of PDM Strocal (located
in Stockton, California) to fabricate and erect structural steel buildings in
the California, Nevada and Arizona markets.
    PDM also announced today the decision to close its structural steel
fabricating facility in Melrose Park, Illinois, redeploying some employees and
equipment to the new plant as well as to existing bridge fabricating plants in
Wisconsin which are also slated for expansion.
    The Company is pleased with the recent confidence expressed by its Board
of Directors in maintaining a $.27 1/2 per share quarterly dividend after a
3 for 2 stock split announced February 13, 1997, and in the Company's January
31, 1997, announcement of its acquisition of General Steel Corporation,
Vancouver, Washington, a steel service center delivering a general line of
carbon steel products in Oregon and Washington.  This acquisition will expand
PDM's Steel Service Center Division, headquartered in Stockton, California,
into the Pacific Northwest.
    Pitt-Des Moines, Inc. (PDM (R)) is a diversified engineering and
construction company that also processes and distributes a broad range of
carbon steel products.  PDM has three business segments:  the Engineered
Construction Division, Steel Construction and Steel Service Centers.  PDM has
sales offices and plant facilities located primarily in the United States.

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