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U. S. Steel Tubular Products Inc., Spring, Texas, a subsidiary of United States Steel Corp., has announced that Ryan M. Lance, chairman/CEO of ConocoPhillips, is the recipient of the Chief Roughneck Award for 2017. Lance is a petroleum engineer with 32 years of oil and natural gas industry...
Pittsburgh-based United States Steel Corp. has announced that Suzanne Rich Folsom, general counsel, chief compliance officer and senior vice president government affairs, will resign from the company effective Dec. 29, 2017. Folsom joined the company in 2014. She was instrumental in leading the...
ABC Metals Inc., a precision slitter and distributor of primarily nonferrous alloys, has acquired the assets of International Metals Processing LLC (IMP), a toll processor of coils and sheets of steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and bronze. IMP’s 86,400-sq.-ft. facility in Indianapolis offers...
Metal additive manufacturing promises to change the way that people look at metal part design, and small manufacturing companies don't have to be left out of this new adventure.
Bridger Steel Inc., a manufacturer of metal panel systems for roofing, siding, and interior applications, has signed a lease with the Port of Kalama in southwest Washington for 30,000 sq. ft. of office and warehouse space and another 10,000-sq.-ft. covered area for loading trucks. The facility is...
TimkenSteel, a provider of customized alloy steel products and services, has brought online a $40 million quench-and-temper facility at its Gambrinus Steel Plant in Canton, Ohio, bringing the company's total annual thermal-treatment capacity to 500,000 process tons. The quench-and-temper facility...
McNichols Co., a supplier and fabricator of perforated and expanded metals, wire mesh, and gratings, has opened its 19th metals service center. The 21,000-sq.-ft. facility in Draper, Utah, brings the company’s total operational square footage to 725,000. The new facility maintains an inventory of...
Sweden-based Sandvik has appointed Göran Björkman as the new president of Sandvik Materials Technology and a member of Sandvik's group executive management team. He succeeds Petra Einarsson, who is leaving the company for an external assignment. Björkman has been with the company since 1990 and...
The International Titanium Association (ITA) has announced the death of Stanley Abkowitz, an award-winning pioneer in the U.S. titanium metals industry and the founder of Dynamet Technology Inc., on Oct. 29. He was 90 years old. A 1948 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),...
Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., has announced that its Nucor Steel Memphis Inc. division has been certified by Caterpillar Inc. at the platinum level through its Supplier Quality Excellence Process. Nucor Steel Memphis has supplied Caterpillar with engineered long bar in carbon and alloy grades since...
Commercial Metals Co., Irving, Texas, has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, CMC Steel Fabricators Inc., has acquired substantially all the assets of MMFX Technologies Corp., a provider of proprietary specialty steel products. Irvine, Calif.-based MMFX’s products include its ChrōmX line...
Steelscape’s Kalama, Wash., facility has received the National Coil Coating Association’s 2017 Safety Award. The NCCA Safety Committee selected Steelscape, a national supplier of metallic-coated and prepainted steel, from 40 plants that were considered for the award. Entries were judged on data...
Mill Steel Co., a distributor of flat-rolled carbon steel in Grand Rapids, Mich., has promoted Joe Poot from vice president of purchasing to senior vice president. Poot started his career with the company 18 years ago as assistant controller. Shortly thereafter he advanced to business unit...
Sweden-based Sandvik has signed a contract for the supply of stainless steel tubes required for 155 miles of umbilicals. The contract value is approximately $85.5 million, and deliveries will take place from the end of 2017 through the first half of 2018. Umbilical systems are connections used to...
Direct Metals, an international steel service center with locations in Kennesaw, Ga., and Waukegan, Ill., has supplied 6,865 sq. ft. of decorative louvered aluminum expanded metal for the railings of the Fontainebleau Terrace in Panama City Beach, Fla. The 6- by 0.081-in. decorative metal, powder...
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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.