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From: News and Views | City Beat |

Tuesday, February 05, 2002

Clamp on WTC Steel

Ban targets medallions

By GREG GITTRICH

Daily News Staff Writer

he city is telling scrap yards not to sell steel from the World Trade Center to companies that want to exploit the tragedy by turning the wreckage into things like souvenirs, the Daily News

has learned.

Kenneth Holden, commissioner of the city Design and Construction Department, fired off letters to three New Jersey scrap yards after The News revealed last week that a Georgia company has been melting tons of the steel into commemorative medallions.

The company, International Agile Manufacturing, is selling the souvenirs — slammed by victims' relatives as ghoulish — for $29.95 a pop.

"The families of the victims of the terrorist attack continue to deal with the grief and sorrow," Holden wrote. "It is unacceptable for manufacturers of medallions and other items to profit from that grief and horror."