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United Performance Metals approved for laser processing of GE parts Published: March 15, 2010 United Performance Metals, a supplier of specialty stainless steel and high-temperature alloys in Hamilton, Ohio, has received special process...

HRB prices rise Published: March 10, 2010 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ United States HRB spot price for March 8 surged 5.4 percent to $706 per metric ton, FOB the mill, for the...

Hydro Aluminum hires regional sales and technical manager Published: March 5, 2010 Hydro's Metal Markets North America, Linthicum, Md., has added Greg Lea to its commercial team as regional sales and technical manager for the...

Globe Specialty Metals reopens Alabama facility Published: March 5, 2010 Globe Specialty Metals Inc., New York, has reopened its Selma, Ala., silicon metal and ferrosilicon alloys facility, which it had idled during the...

ASTM revises steel sheet standards Published: March 5, 2010 ASTM Intl. Committees A01 on Steel, Stainless Steel and Related Alloys and A05 on Metallic-Coated Iron and Steel Products, W. Conshohocken, Pa.,...

Worthington acquires Gibraltar's steel processing assets Published: March 5, 2010 Worthington Industries Inc., Columbus, Ohio, has announced that its steel processing business segment has acquired the steel processing assets of...

Sandmeyer Steel announces retirement of inside sales rep after 46 years of service Published: March 5, 2010 Loretta B. Wysocki will retire from Sandmeyer Steel Co., Philadelphia, after 46 years of service. She joined the company on April 14, 1964, as a...

New standards released for metal powder testing, bearings Published: February 9, 2010 New 2010 editions of two powder metallurgy (PM) standards have been issued by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF). The 130-page...

Wall Colmonoy hires corporate controller Published: February 9, 2010 Wall Colmonoy, a manufacturer of high-temperature brazing and coating alloys in Madison Heights, Mich., has hired Randy Buoy as corporate...

Cargill to acquire Robinson's RPS Steel division Published: February 9, 2010 Cargill has announced that it will purchase Robinson Steel's RPS® Steel division, acquiring its cold-reduction lines in East Chicago, Ind.,...

U.S.S. New York warship contains recycled steel from World Trade Center Published: January 12, 2010 The fifth in a line of a new class of warship was commissioned into the U.S. Navy in November in New York City. The U.S.S. New York, roughly the...

Eddie Kane Steel opens two new facilities Published: January 12, 2010 Eddie Kane Steel Products Inc., a carbon and alloy distributor in Spring Lake, N.J., has opened two additional sales, distribution, and processing...

Nucor Executive Vice President Joe Rutkowski to retire; Joe Stratman to assume additional responsibilities Published: January 11, 2010 Nucor Corp. Executive Vice President of Business Development Joseph A. Rutkowski announced today his plans to retire at the end of February after...

Cargill to acquire Robinson's RPS® Steel division Published: December 17, 2009 Cargill, a global trader, processor, and distributor of iron and steel, has agreed with Robinson Steel to increase its investment in RPS®...

HRB prices off bottom Published: December 16, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ United States HRB spot price for December 14 rose 4.0 percent to $575 per metric ton, FOB the mill, after...

Advanced high-strength steel technologies featured on 2010 Ram Heavy Duty – Motor Trend Truck of the Year Published: December 15, 2009 Motor Trend magazine has selected the new Ram Heavy Duty as its Truck of the Year, giving the North American steel industry and AISI's Steel...

MSCI scholarship program awards exceed $1 million Published: December 15, 2009 A college scholarship program started in 2002 by the Florida Chapter of the Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI), Boca Raton, Fla., has expanded...

American Piping expands in Houston, hires CFO in St. Louis Published: December 15, 2009 American Piping Products has expanded its Houston facility with a new sales and operations headquarters. The company is a supplier of heavy-wall...

Specialty Strip & Oscillating hires sales rep Published: December 15, 2009 Specialty Strip & Oscillating Inc., a supplier of conventional slit and oscillate coils in Masury, Ohio, has hired Jamie R. DeVore as a sales...

Plymouth Tube announces two staff promotions Published: December 15, 2009 Plymouth Tube Co., Warrenville, Ill., has named Bill Henricks to the position of energy group account executive. In this position, he focuses on...

Scrap Salvage & Surplus patents mobile processing unit Published: December 15, 2009 Scrap Salvage & Surplus Inc., Butler, Pa., has patented a mobile processing unit for heavy torching of oversized metal scrap generated by...

HRB prices bottoming? Published: November 30, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ Chinese HRB ex-works price for Nov. 23 rose 3.7 percent to $453 per ton for the third consecutive...

United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO Metal Trades presidents featured on special rebroadcast of 'Inside Government' Published: November 12, 2009 Building a new economy that utilizes clean energy, a 21st century infrastructure and allows the U.S. to thrive on the global stage will be the...

HRB prices converging Published: November 11, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ Chinese HRB ex-works price for Nov. 9 rose 1.6 percent to $437 per ton for the second consecutive...

MCA clarifies green industry definitions Published: November 10, 2009 Metal Construction Association, Glenview, Ill., has published a compilation of green industry definitions, accessible in the Sustainable Design...

Allied Tube & Conduit celebrates 50th anniversary with flagship facility expansion Published: November 3, 2009 Allied Tube & Conduit Corp., a business within Tyco Electrical & Metal Products, which is a segment of Tyco International, has announced the grand...

HRB prices split: China, Western Europe up; U.S., World down Published: October 28, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ Chinese HRB ex-works price for Oct. 26 surged 5.7 percent to $430 per ton after four consecutive...

HRB prices retreat Published: October 14, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ United States HRB price for Oct. 12 fell 1.1 percent to $609 per metric ton, FOB the mill, eight...

Sandvik to open service center in China Published: Array Sandvik Materials Technology, Sandviken, Sweden, has announced plans to open a dedicated service center with its own slitting line in Zhenjiang,...

Serviacero Worthington opens facility in northern Mexico Published: October 13, 2009 Worthington Industries Inc., Columbus, Ohio, has announced that its joint venture, Serviacero Worthington, has completed phase one of its...

Detroit Tool Metal Products to receive Senate Appropriation Committee funding Published: October 7, 2009 Detroit Tool Metal Products (DTMP), Lebanon, Mo., has announced that the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee has approved $2 million in funding...

HRB price recovery slows Published: September 30, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ United States HRB price for Sept. 28 rose 1.5 percent to $616 per metric ton, FOB the mill, for the...

Steel Market Intelligence: EU finalizes tariffs up to 39 percent on Chinese steel pipe Published: September 25, 2009 Steel Market Intelligence has reported that according to press reports, the European Union finalized five-year steel pipe dumping duties as high...

HRB price falls in China, rises elsewhere Published: September 18, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ United States HRB price for Sept. 14 surged 7.2 percent to $607 per metric ton, FOB the mill, for the...

Stainless steel symposium scheduled for October in Milan, Italy Published: September 9, 2009 Stresa, on lake Maggiore, near Milan, Italy, is the venue for the 3rd International Stainless Steel Symposium, to be held Oct. 7 and 8, 2009....

Specialty Strip & Oscillating hires new plant manager Published: September 9, 2009 Specialty Strip & Oscillating Inc., Masury, Ohio, has hired Corey Brown as plant manager responsible for daily operations. The ISO 9001:2000...

HRB price recovery stalls Published: August 26, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ Western European HRB price for Aug. 24 rose 3.3 percent to $570 (on a Euro basis, it rose 2.1 percent),...

Tube City IMS announces executive management appointments Published: August 25, 2009 Joseph Curtin, president and CEO of Tube City IMS Corp., a provider of products and services to steel mills and foundries globally, today...

HRB prices rebound Published: August 12, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ World export HRB price for Aug. 10 surged 6.9 percent to $542 per ton, FOB the port of export for the...

Woodstock Tube celebrates five years Published: August 11, 2009 Woodstock Tube, Woodstock, Ala., recently celebrated five years of operation. The company manufactures pipe, as well as square and rectangular...

HRB prices up—Markets converge Published: July 29, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ Chinese HRB ex-works price for July 27 surged 6.5 percent to $492 per ton for the seventh consecutive...

Nucor praises U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk's commitment to trade enforcement Published: July 22, 2009 Nucor Corporation Chief Executive Officer and President Dan DiMicco today commended United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk for his recent...

L.B. Foster to provide sheet piling for New Orleans flood walls Published: July 20, 2009 L.B. Foster Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., has been awarded a $23.1 million contract to provide steel sheet piling to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...

HRB prices rebound worldwide Published: July 15, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ United States HRB spot price for July 13 surged 8.7 percent to $501 per metric ton, FOB the mill, for the...

Report analyzes worldwide aluminum supply, demand Published: July 14, 2009 China dominates the global aluminum industry, accounting for one-third of both world production and world consumption of primary aluminum,...

Michigan Seamless Tube adds UV coating line Published: July 14, 2009 Michigan Seamless Tube, a producer of carbon and alloy seamless cold-drawn pipe and tube, has added a new UV coating line to its South Lyon,...

Reliance Steel & Aluminum names corporate officer Published: July 14, 2009 Metals service center Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., Los Angeles, has named Sheldon Tenenbaum as senior vice president of supplier development. He...

HRB prices on the way up Published: June 24, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ World export HRB price for June 22 soared 10.9 percent to $446 per ton, FOB the port of export, for the...

USW supports new WTO case filed by U.S., EU against China Published: June 23, 2009 The United Steelworkers (USW) today gave strong support for a new World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute filed by the United States and European...

AISI stresses importance of steel in future vehicles Published: June 18, 2009 Through collaborative efforts with automakers, the North American steel industry is continuing to reinvent its advanced steel technologies to meet...

HRB prices off the bottom Published: June 10, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ Chinese HRB ex-works price for June 8 rose 1.9 percent to $429 per ton for the fourth consecutive rise....

Gerdau Ameristeel announces production suspension, mill closing Published: June 9, 2009 Gerdau Ameristeel Corp. has announced that it is suspending production at its Sayreville, N.J., steel mill and closing its rolling mill in...

Peddinghaus announces engineering promotions Published: June 9, 2009 Peddinghaus Corp. has announced the promotions of two senior engineers at its facility in Bradley, Ill. James Magnuson was named as vice...

ASM Intl. adds online phase diagrams Published: June 9, 2009 The latest update to the ASM Intl. Alloy Phase Diagram Center at www.asminternational.org/materialsinfo includes 1,500 new phase diagrams,...

Titanium 2009 scheduled for September Published: June 9, 2009 International Titanium Association's (ITA's) 25th Annual Conference, the only yearly event dedicated to the titanium industry, is slated for Sept....

HRB prices: Trolling the bottom Published: May 27, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ United States HRB spot price for May 25 fell 3.2 percent to $429 per metric ton, FOB the mill, for the...

AK Tube's Walbridge Plant receives safety award Published: May 27, 2009 AK Steel has announced that the Walbridge, Ohio plant of AK Tube LLC has been honored with a Special Award for its safety performance from the...

Seamless stainless tube imports from China continue growth Published: May 26, 2009 U.S. producers comprising the Stainless Steel Tube Trade Advancement Committee (SSTTAC) have noted that, despite the significant recession in the...

Republic moves to Canton Published: May 12, 2009 Republic Engineered Products Inc., a producer of special bar quality steel, has moved its corporate headquarters from Fairlawn, Ohio, to its...

Rolled Alloys opens warehouse Published: May 12, 2009 Rolled Alloys, with headquarters in Temperance, Mich., has opened a warehouse in Tulsa, Okla. The 68,000-sq.-ft. facility inventories heat- and...

RathGibson names vice president of sales and marketing Published: May 12, 2009 RathGibson, Lincolnshire, Ill., has appointed Kirk Thorne to the position of vice president – sales and marketing. Thorne, who has 25 years...

CMW names chief operating officer Published: May 12, 2009 Eric L. Krepps has joined CMW Inc., an Indianapolis-based manufacturer of highly engineered metal alloys and composites, as COO. His...

QY Group-China opens Tritube USA Published: May 12, 2009 QY Group-China has opened Tritube USA in Baytown, Texas, the group's first manufacturing venture in the U.S. The manufacturing facility has four...

Prolamsa USA begins producing mechanical tubing in U.S. Published: May 12, 2009 Prolamsa USA has begun production of mechanical tubing at its first U.S. manufacturing facility, located in Laredo, Texas. The facility produces...

RathGibson opens Buenos Aires office Published: Array Lincolnshire, Ill.-based RathGibson, a manufacturer of welded, welded and drawn, and seamless stainless steel, nickel, and titanium tubing, has...

HRB prices: 'Never-ending bottom' Published: April 29, 2009 In its latest release of hot-rolled band prices, SteelBenchmarker ™'s headline read "never-ending bottom." The bi-monthly...

World steel demand set for sharpest decline since WWII Published: April 27, 2009 Reuters has reported that the world's steel industry is bracing for the steepest fall in demand since World War II, "as global economic downturn...

TMK IPSCO Kentucky plant ratifies new labor agreement Published: April 23, 2009 TMK IPSCO was notified yesterday by the United Steelworkers and its Local 1870 that union members at the company's Wilder, Ky., plant have...

AK Steel announces stainless steel price increase Published: April 20, 2009 AK Steel said today that it is increasing base prices for all 200, 300, and 400 series flat rolled stainless steel products by 6 percent to 9...

HRB prices continue to drop Published: April 15, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker U.S. HRB price for April 13 plummeted 8.0 percent to $474 per metric ton, FOB the mill, for the 17th consecutive...

MCA initiates research with ORNL on next-generation wall and roof assemblies Published: April 14, 2009 The Metal Construction Association (MCA), Glenview, Ill., and the Dept. of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have agreed on a...

AHSS materials added to die design, forming software database Published: April 14, 2009 AutoForm now includes material data for a number of SSAB advanced high-strength steels (AHSSs) in its software systems for die design and sheet...

TMK IPSCO opens Baytown heat treat facility Published: April 13, 2009 Construction of a new heat treat facility has been completed at TMK IPSCO's Baytown Works in Baytown, Texas. The facility is designed to heat...

USW joins oil tubular trade case against China imports Published: April 9, 2009 Seven U.S. oil country tubular goods (OCTG) producers and the United Steelworkers (USW) have filed an antidumping and countervailing duty trade...

Hydro to close precision tubing plant in Michigan Published: March 31, 2009 Norway-based Hydro, a supplier of aluminum and aluminum products, has announced that it is consolidating its aluminum precision tubing operation...

HRB prices: 'Bottom unfathomable' Published: March 25, 2009 In its latest release of hot-rolled band prices, SteelBenchmarker ™'s headline read "bottom unfathomable." The bi-monthly...

Gallatin Steel Co announces organizational changes Published: March 23, 2009 Gallatin Steel, Ghent, Ky., has announced that Tobin Pospisil, current chief financial officer and general manager of Administration and Finance,...

Two AK Steel coke plants receive industry's highest safety award Published: March 18, 2009 AK Steel said today that, for the first time in history, the American Coke and Coal Chemicals Institute (ACCCI) bestowed its highest award for...

USW celebrates 'Buy American' wins Published: March 18, 2009 March 17, the United Steelworkers (USW) celebrated a milestone in its economic renewal campaign—the passage of a "Buy American" resolution...

Gallatin Steel mourns loss of President Don Daily Published: March 17, 2009 Don B. Daily, 62, president of Gallatin Steel Co., passed away March 13 after a short illness. "Don was a significant source of the success of...

HRB prices in free fall Published: March 11, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker ™ Western European HRB price for March 9 dropped 6.3 percent to $479 per ton (on a Euro basis, it dropped...

RIOS Accreditation Program opens for scrap recyclers Published: March 10, 2009 The ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB), Washington, D.C., has officially opened the RIOS Accreditation Program, which enables scrap...

RathGibson hires CFO Published: March 10, 2009 RathGibson, a manufacturer of welded, welded and drawn, and seamless stainless steel, nickel, and titanium tubing in Lincolnshire, Ill., has...

Greenville Tube launches redesigned Web site Published: March 9, 2009 Greenville Tube, a manufacturer of high-quality, small-diameter stainless steel and nickel alloy seamless and welded and drawn tubing, has...

U.S. Steel announces management changes at corporate headquarters Published: March 2, 2009 United States Steel Corp. today announced several management changes at its corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh. Deborah A. Grabe has been named...

AK Steel announces April 2009 surcharges Published: March 2, 2009 AK Steel has advised its customers that a $100 per ton surcharge will be added to invoices for electrical steel products shipped in April 2009....

HRB prices down to 2005 levels Published: February 25, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker™ Chinese HRB ex-works price for Feb. 23rd plummeted 8.6 percent to $436 per ton for the second consecutive...

U.S. Steel names VP – tubular operations Published: February 24, 2009 United States Steel Corp. announced today that Douglas R. Matthews has been appointed vice president-tubular operations and president of the...

HRB prices revisit the bottom Published: February 11, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker™ United States hot-rolled band (HRB) spot price for Feb. 9th dropped 3.5 percent to $554 per metric ton,...

Metals Supply Co. appoints president Published: February 10, 2009 Metals Supply Co. Ltd., Houston-based subsidiary of Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., has named John Hess as president. Hess has more than 27 years...

Sandvik Decorex wins design award Published: February 10, 2009 Sandvik Decorex™, produced by Sandvik Materials Technology in Sandviken, Sweden, has won a Materialica Design + Technology Award for 2008,...

HRB prices plumbing the bottom Published: January 28, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker™ World export HRB price for January 26 dropped 4.6 percent to $480 per ton, FOB the port of export, after...

HRB price downdraft bottoming Published: January 14, 2009 The bi-monthly SteelBenchmarker™ Western European HRB price for Jan. 12 fell 4.7 percent to $549 per ton (on a Euro basis, it rose 0.7...

Monarch Steel adds light-gauge slitter to Alabama facility Published: January 13, 2009 Monarch Steel Co. Inc., a Cleveland-based supplier of flat hot-rolled steel, cold-rolled steel, and coated products, has increased the production...

NCCA members working to meet increased demand for prepaint Published: December 16, 2008 To meet growing demand for coil coated metal, members of the National Coil Coating Association (NCCA), Cleveland, have invested capital to build...

RathGibson launches new international offices Published: December 16, 2008 RathGibson, Lincolnshire, Ill., a manufacturer of welded, welded and drawn, and seamless stainless steel, nickel, and titanium tubing, has...

Rolled Alloys acquires Weir Materials Published: December 16, 2008 Rolled Alloys, Temperance, Mich., recently acquired Weir Materials, Manchester, England. The acquisition formed a new company called...

AISC presents achievement awards at annual meeting Published: December 16, 2008 The American Institute of Steel Construction's Lifetime Achievement and Special Achievement awards were presented at the 2008 AISC Annual Meeting...

HRB price direction continues mixed Published: December 10, 2008 The SteelBenchmarker™ U.S. HRB spot price for Dec. 8 dropped 11.8 percent to $614 per metric ton, FOB the mill, for the ninth consecutive...

HRB prices plummet 34 percent to 48 percent from peak Published: November 13, 2008 The SteelBenchmarker™ world export HRB price for Nov. 10 dropped 10.3 percent to $630 per ton, FOB the port of export, for the seventh...

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