The Association of Metal Processors and Distributors (AMPD) serves the needs of professionals in the steel distribution industry.
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SSAB offers Duroxite™ 300 overlay plate to help provide long service life in extreme wet and dry sliding wear environments. The overlay material contains a high volume of an ultrafine, complex borocarbide phase with a grain size refined down to 500 nm to deliver high resistance to abrasive wear...
Manufacturers have quietly voiced frustration with numerous U.S. International Trade Commission decisions to protect domestic metal producers. With the recent announcement about widespread tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, manufacturers’ voices are growing louder.
Warrenville, Ill.-based Plymouth Tube has announced that its Trent Mill in East Troy, Wis., has received Nadcap accreditation for nondestructive testing.
The company is a supplier of specialty tubing in carbon steel, alloy steel, stainless steel, and nickel alloy.
Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., will build a rebar micro mill in Frostproof, Fla. The $240 million facility is expected to employ about 250 people and have an annual capacity of 350,000 tons. Construction is expected to take two years. The company and its affiliates are manufacturers of steel...
The International Titanium Association (ITA), Denver, has issued a call for papers for the Titanium USA 2018 conference, which will run Oct. 7-10 in Las Vegas. The organizing committee is seeking market-oriented and technical papers alike. Abstracts from ITA members, nonmembers, and academia are...
United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, has promoted Barry Melnkovic from vice president/chief human resources officer to senior vice president/chief human resources officer. Before joining the company in May 2017, Melnkovic served as executive vice president/chief human capital officer, labor...
Republic Steel, a provider of special bar quality (SBQ) steel, has announced it is positioned to restart its Lorain, Ohio, facility, including its idled electric arc furnace, casters, and rolling mills, on short notice as a response to the recently announced steel tariff. The company says it is...
Olympic Steel Inc., a national metals service center, has promoted Thomas J. Sacco to regional vice president. He joined the company in 1994 in operations before transitioning to the commercial group. He progressed through several roles with increasing responsibility, including inside and outside...
Southern Recycling LLC has broken ground in Bowling Green, Ky., on a processing facility for recycling scrap metal, paper, and plastic. The firm recycles all grades of scrap metal, including iron, steel, copper, brass, stainless steel, nickel, and nickel alloys. At current capacity, the firm is...
M. Robert Weidner III, president/CEO of the Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI), a Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based organization that serves the industrial metals supply chain, has issued the following statement regarding President Trump’s plan to impose a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a...
The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), a trade association for structural steel based in New York, has advised its membership of possible market impacts from the Section 232 tariffs ordered by President Trump. “First, the cost of material is just one of several components in the...
Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., has announced it is pleased that President Trump has moved forward to implement the previously announced tariffs on steel imports. "We thank the president for taking decisive and meaningful action to address the massive flood of dumped and illegally subsidized steel...
United States Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, has announced it will restart one of two blast furnaces and the steelmaking facilities at its Granite City Works, an integrated steelmaking plant in Granite City, Ill. The additional capacity will support anticipated increased demand for steel in the U.S. from...
In January 2018 recycled aluminum alloy producers from across the U.S. formed the Aluminum Recyclers Council (ARC). Based in Wauconda, Ill., the council was formed to give key contributors to the aluminum industry a unified voice in an industry undergoing dramatic changes. ARC’s mission is to...
Aleris, a provider of aluminum rolled products, has announced that Helene Lagace, director of research and development, and Brittany Kanz, manager of master planning and inventory, have been named as recipients of Women in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) Ahead...
The Fabricator is North America's leading magazine for the metal forming and fabricating industry. The magazine delivers the news, technical articles, and case histories that enable fabricators to do their jobs more efficiently. The Fabricator has served the industry since 1970.
start your free subscriptionIn this episode of The Fabricator Podcast, Caleb Chamberlain, co-founder and CEO of OSH Cut, discusses his company’s...
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.