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.
Philadelphia-based Carpenter Technology Corp., a producer and distributor of specialty alloys, including titanium alloys, nickel- and cobalt-based superalloys, stainless steels, alloy steels, and tool steels, has purchased MB CalRAM LLC, a provider of powder-bed fusion additive manufacturing metal...
Rochester, N.Y.-based Klein Steel Service, a metals supplier and processing center, has named Mike Young as president/COO. He has nearly four decades of steel service center experience and has held the position of vice president/COO at Chatham Steel for more than 11 years. Before that he held...
Flack Global Metals, Chicago, and First American Resources, Atlanta, have announced plans to develop a new coil coating and metal processing facility in Athens, Ga. The 360,000-sq.-ft. facility will be designed for flatness/surface-critical applications in aluminum, stainless steel, and bare and...
Munich-based Matmatch has created what it says is the largest free materials database in the world to help bridge the gap between suppliers and purchasers. Users of the database at https://matmatch.com/ can research and compare materials by filtering on their physical, chemical, and thermal...
Braner/Loopco, Schiller Park, Ill., has received an order for a Turret Head™ slitting line from Austin, Texas-based United Steel Supply, a supplier of galvanized and prepainted steel coil for metal roofing and siding applications. The line will have the capacity to process high-strength coated...
Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc., Portland, Ore., has been recognized by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the 2018 World’s Most Ethical Companies®. This is the fourth consecutive year the company has earned this recognition, which honors companies that operate with purpose and incorporate...
The U.S. manufacturing economy is improving, and the Trump administration is considering possible tariffs on imported steel. As a result, steel prices are climbing, and that likely will remain the case in the near term.
Secretary Wilbur Ross has released reports on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s investigations into the impact on U.S. national security from imports of steel mill products and from imports of wrought and unwrought aluminum. These investigations were carried out under Section 232 of the Trade...
London-based Primetals Technologies Ltd., a worldwide engineering, manufacturing, and life cycle services provider for the metals industry, has named Satoru Iijima as CEO and chairman of the board, effective April 1. Since 2015 he has served as president/CEO of Primetals Technologies USA LLC....
Specialty steel service center Chicago Tube and Iron, Romeoville, Ill., has promoted Scott Langford to the position of corporate director of logistics. In this role he will work to move the company from a model in which transportation is a cost of doing business to a new approach in which logistics...
Holton Crest Ltd. offers three models of continuous rotary extrusion machines for processing aluminum and copper. The HC1100 is designed for small section products and small-volume production. It is suitable for small tubes, magnet wire, and small copper profiles. The HC2200 offers midrange...
The Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Intl. and Tube & Pipe Association, both of Elgin, Ill., along with 13 other trade associations representing more than 30,000 U.S. steel-using manufacturers that employ 1 million American workers, have sent a letter to President Trump and other senior...
The U.S. Department of Commerce has begun new antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations to determine whether imports of large-diameter welded pipe from Canada, China, Greece, India, Korea, and Turkey are being dumped in the U.S. and if producers are receiving unfair...
Steel producer SMS group North America and Arkansas Northeastern College (ANC) have signed an agreement creating the Arkansas Steelmaking Academy (ASA), which will begin offering training in 2019. With the opening of Big River Steel, northeastern Arkansas has one of the highest regional...
Primetals Technologies has received an order from steel producer ArcelorMittal México S.A. de C.V. to supply a hot strip mill and a hot skin pass mill for its production site in Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán State, Mexico. This will enable ArcelorMittal Lázaro Cárdenas to process the...
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 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.