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North Star BlueScope Steel has announced plans to add a $700 million addition to its plant in Delta, Ohio, to be completed in 2022, reports wtol.com. The expansion is expected to increase the plant’s steel coil production by 40%. The facility produces steel for automotive, agriculture, and...
Nanotechnology makes aluminum 7075 a weldable alloy, and the ideas behind it have broad implications for other sheet metal manufacturing processes, including forming.
Specialty Steel Works Inc., Hammond, Ind., has appointed current President/COO Michael Salamon as CEO/president. He also becomes a member of the board of directors. Joel Hawthorne has stepped down as CEO. The company is a manufacturer and processor of value-added specialized steel products,...
Solar Atmospheres of Western Pennsylvania, Hermitage, Pa., has announced its Gulfstream approval for material process specifications GAMPS 5101 and 5102. Specification GAMPS 5101 relates to the heat treatment of low-alloy steels, and GAMPS 5102 is associated with the annealing and precipitation...
DeWys Mfg. Inc., Marne, Mich., has added a new business unit dedicated to the production of stainless steel and aluminum parts. DeWys’ Stainless Solutions will offer products fabricated from various grades of stainless steel and aluminum up to 0.250 in. thick, including laboratory furniture,...
Metal Exchange Corp., St. Louis, which specializes in nonferrous metal purchasing, manufacturing, and processing, has promoted Vijay Natarajan, global business manager, to executive vice president of trading and Ben Evans, president of trading, to the newly created position of vice president of...
A. M. Castle & Co., Oak Brook, Ill., a global distributor of specialty metals including alloy and stainless steels, nickel alloys, aluminum, and carbon, has named President Marec Edgar as CEO. Edgar has joined the board of directors, and Mike Sheehan, formerly a director, assumes the role of...
Solar Atmospheres has hired Tom Gundic as plant manager at its Greenville, S.C., facility. He has more than 14 years of vacuum heat-treating and brazing experience. The company provides vacuum heat-treating, brazing, carburizing, cryogenic processing, and sintering services to the aerospace,...
Superior Die Set Corp., a manufacturer of steel and aluminum products for the metal stamping industry and fabrications used in machine tools, construction, and press automation, has announced the move of its sister company, Greendale Precision Services, to its Oak Creek, Wis., location. The move of...
From steel market instability to the manufacturing skills gap to EV evolution to welder pay to machine learning, here are the 15 most-read articles and blogs on thefabricator.com in 2019.
Jemison Metals, a supplier of carbon flat-rolled products, has announced plans to expand operations in Sumter, S.C. The more than $14 million investment is expected to create 57 jobs. This expansion, scheduled for completion in 2023, will include a new product line that will increase service...
The board of directors for Houston-based NACE Intl. has approved the membership slate of the new NACE Standards Board and authorized its members to provide oversight and management of NACE Intl.’s standards program. The Standards Board will have a voting seat on the board of directors, effective...
Houston-based steel distributor Triple-S Steel Holdings Inc., through its Intsel Steel East subsidiary, has acquired the assets of Bushwick Metals, a wholesale distributor of structural steel products. The acquisition brings to Triple-S about 110 employees in three locations in Connecticut, New...
Recently announced price hikes from mills resulted in an increase in steel prices toward the close of 2019. Some buyers, however, wonder if market economics will support those increases.
Hagen, Germany-based Waelzholz, a manufacturer of cold-rolled steel materials, has opened a sales subsidiary in Mexico City, Waelzholz México, S. de R.L. de C.V., to serve the automotive and industrial sectors. The company’s entire product range is available from the new office, as well as...
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start your free subscriptionAfter Ludlow Manufacturing Inc. (LMI) received The Fabricator's 2024 Industry Award, Todd Ludlow, founder and president of the...
The Association of Metal Processors and Distributors (AMPD) serves the needs of professionals in the steel distribution industry.
Follow the link below to find an AMPD member steel supplier near you.