Aluminum maker Ormet Corporation and a union representing 15-hundred striking workers at a southeast Ohio mill say they have reached a tentative contract.

The walkout began in November 2004.

Members of the United Steelworkers struck two Ormet facilities after the company received permission from a bankruptcy judge to void its labor contracts with the union.

The strike involved plants along the Ohio River between Marietta and Steubenville. Ormet recently moved its headquarters from Wheeling, West Virginia, to Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

The company says the contract includes a signing bonus, raises and profit sharing. Neither side would disclose details about the deal.

Company CEO Ken Campbell says both sides made concessions.

Ormet emerged from chapter eleven bankruptcy last year. The company has since sold the rolling mill where aluminum is rolled into sheets.