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Chicago-based Gatto Industrial Platers Inc., a provider of zinc and zinc-nickel plating and aluminum chromating for the automotive, agricultural, electrical, and railroad industries, has installed a new, larger zinc-nickel plating line. The line enables the company to plate both large parts and...
Specialty metals distributor United Performance Metals (UPM), Cincinnati, has launched a newly redesigned website at www.upmet.com. The site incorporates many new materials, new processing capabilities, and additional geographic locations. These updates are the result of the company's recent...
M. Robert Weidner III, president/CEO of the Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI), Rolling Meadows, Ill., has issued the following statement on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s selection of Robert Lighthizer to be U.S. Trade Representative, Peter Navarro to direct the National Trade Council,...
Bulldog Steel Fabrication (BSF), a supplier of steel fabricated parts and components in Madison, Ga., has promoted Loni Johnson to operations and finance manager. Johnson joined the company in 2012, holding several positions that helped to govern the administrative and financial...
Pittsburgh-based BuildSteel, a new collaboration of steel and construction industry organizations formed to educate building professionals on the uses and benefits of cold-formed steel framing, has launched a website at www.buildsteel.org. The website serves as an educational center, continuously...
Roseville, Minn.-based Ratner Steel Supply Co. has announced plans to double the size of its plant in Portage, Ind., adding 100,000 sq. ft. and hiring up to 37 more employees by 2019. The firm, which makes carbon sheet for service centers and manufacturers, has been operating at capacity in Portage...
O’Neal Industries (ONI), Birmingham, Ala., a family-owned group of metals service centers, has announced the merger and operations integration of four affiliates: Aerodyne Alloys, Plus Ten Stainless, United Performance Metals, and Vulcanium Metals Intl. to form United Performance Metals (UPM). As...
Big River Steel has begun operations in its melt shop and hot mill in Osceola, Ark. These are the third and fourth areas of the mill to be commissioned following the batch anneal facility and temper mill. The first hot-rolled coil was purchased by Zekelman Industries for Atlas Tube, one of the...
Houston-based steel service center North Shore Steel has acquired the equipment assets of Houston Blow Pipe, a plate processing business also located in Houston. The acquisition includes four press brakes, one of which is a 3,000-ton press brake with a 27.5-ft. bed, as well as several plate rolling...
A new ASTM Intl. standard will help those who both provide and use induction heat treatment to strengthen metals. While guides and specifications already exist to qualify standard heat-treating furnaces, this new standard will be the first generally accepted guide for qualification of induction...
Effective Jan. 1, 2017, the businesses of Tenova Core Inc., Pomini Tenova Inc. (USA), and Tenova I2S will operate as a single company called Tenova Inc. Thomas Bovalina, current Tenova Core president/CEO, will continue to serve in the same position for the newly formed company. Its product...
Pittsburgh-based steel producer United States Steel Corp. has announced it will adjust its hot strip mill operating configuration to support a previously announced asset revitalization process. The company will begin processing slabs on the currently idled hot strip mill at Granite City Works in...
Chicago-based Zekelman Industries has entered into a definitive agreement for Wheatland Tube to purchase Western Tube & Conduit Corp., Long Beach, Calif., from Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. and other minority shareholders. Western Tube & Conduit is a producer of black and galvanized steel...
Charlotte, N.C.-based Nucor Corp. has agreed to acquire Southland Tube, an independent manufacturer of hollow structural section (HSS) steel tubing in Birmingham, Ala. Southland employs about 280 people, shipping about 240,000 tons of HSS steel tubing annually. Through the acquisitions of...
Anco Steel, a Naperville, Ill.-based metals service center, has opened a 64,000-sq.-ft. warehouse in Hammond, Ind.
The new facility distributes carbon long products such as tubing, solid bars, and sheet plates.
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.