The factory housed products from and equipment for the manufacture of steel and carbon fibers used to reinforce concrete. The building was insured.
Authorities think the fire was accidental.
Trooper Jeff Crede, fire marshal, arrived at the scene this morning to begin an investigation. Mitchell, who owns the company with his father, Nick Sr., and brother, Nick Jr., said an employee from the office building in front of the production facility, saw a burning pile of wooden pallets had caught the right half of the building on fire. About 30 minutes earlier, production had ended for the day in that building, Mitchell said. The bottom half of the vivid blue factory is all that stands after a devastating fire struck the company Thursday afternoon. Fibercon co- owner George Mitchell takes in the firefighting efforts outside his Evans City plant Thursday.