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SAF (Southern Aluminum Finishing Co.) has installed a cut-to-length aluminum coil processing line in its SAF-West, Redding, Calif., plant. The heart of the line is a Herr-Voss 6-high corrective leveler to enhance processing of nonferrous coil for surface-critical sheet with the flatness important...
St. Louis-based tube and pipe distributor American Piping Products has promoted Matt Danis from managing director/CFO to president. He previously served the company as CFO/COO from September 2009 to April 2014. Before joining the firm, Danis was CEO/CFO with WIT Postal Logistics LLC. He has a...
American Douglas Metals (ADM), Orlando, Fla., a provider of metal manufacturing, fabrication, processing, and distribution, has launched a website at americandouglasmetals.com. The site includes a Metals Market shopping feature that allows visitors to view and purchase from an inventory of...
Mill Steel Co., a distributor of flat-rolled carbon steel based in Grand Rapids, Mich., has appointed Pam Heglund as president. She has 15 years of experience in the industry and has served for five years as vice president of sales and partner. Heglund joined the company in 2000 as an intern...
The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC), Wauconda, Ill., has presented awards to four individuals recognizing their contributions to the council. Lewie Smith, president of Jordan Aluminum Extrusions in Memphis, Tenn., and Bill Rogers, director of metallurgy and process technology for Alcoa’s...
St. Louis-based Precoat Metals, a unit of Sequa Corp., has appointed Kurt Russell as president. Gerard M. Dombek, who previously held the role of president/CEO, continues to serve as CEO. Russell has been with the company since 2010, previously serving as vice president of manufacturing. Before...
Rolark Stainless Steel Inc., a stainless steel distributor and processor, has announced the retirement of Senior Sales Manager Richard Wargalla effective June 3, 2016. A 30-year employee of the company, Wargalla was a founding partner of the Montreal facility in 1995. The company also has...
The American Galvanizers Association (AGA), Centennial, Colo., has announced the winners of the 2016 Excellence in Hot-Dip Galvanizing Awards. More than 120 projects were submitted representing the versatility of hot-dip galvanizing. All submissions were judged online by a panel of architects and...
Amsterdam-based Constellium N.V. has announced the opening of the Constellium University Technology Center (UTC) at Brunel University London, a dedicated center for the design, development, and prototyping of aluminum alloys and automotive structural components. Featuring industrial-size...
Swedish companies SSAB, LKAB, and Vattenfall have announced that they are launching an initiative to solve the CO2 problem in the Swedish steel industry. Together, the companies involved will initiate work to develop a steel production process that emits water rather than CO2. While SSAB’s...
Los Angeles-based metals service center Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. has acquired all of the capital stock of Best Mfg. Inc., a Jonesboro, Ark., custom sheet metal fabricator of steel and aluminum products on both a direct and toll basis. Best Mfg. provides services including laser cutting,...
Kennesaw, Ga.-based Pacesetter has announced it has been awarded a 2016 Top Workplaces honor by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The award is based solely on the results of an employee feedback survey administered by WorkplaceDynamics LLC. “Time and time again, our research has proven that...
Black Diamond Capital Management LLC, Greenwich, Conn., has announced that its affiliated investment vehicle has signed a definitive agreement with ArcelorMittal to acquire ArcelorMittal's LaPlace, La.; Harriman, Tenn.; and Vinton, Texas, steelmaking and finishing operations focused on the...
The Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), Princeton, N.J., has launched a new website at www.mpif.org. Key features of the site include a clean design, expanded content, a new directory of powder metallurgy (PM) fabricators and suppliers, a new PM publications section hosted by Thomson Reuters...
Constellium N.V., based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, has signed a contract with Airbus to supply a variety of aluminum rolled products for airframes, including wing skin panels, aero-sheets for fuselage panels, and rectangular and premachined plates for structural components. The companies will...
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 subscriptionCameron Adams of Laser Precision, a contract metal fabricator in the Chicago area, joins the podcast to talk...
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.