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• National Tube Supply starts $4.2M expansion Jul 29, 2005

  National Tube Supply Co. (NTS), University Park, Ill., has launched a $4.2-million expansion that will add 90,000 square feet of warehouse space and 3,500 square feet of office space to its 160,000-square-foot facility.

• Radiator producer heads to Mexico Jul 26, 2005

  Newly merged automotive heat transfer products maker Proliance International Inc. will close its radiator plant in Emporia, Kan., and move production to two plants operated by the company in Mexico.

• MPIF recognizes 12 companies for p/m design Jul 25, 2005

  Five companies have been selected for grand prizes and seven have received awards of distinction in a powder metallurgy design contest sponsored by the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), Princeton, N.J.

• Hyundai lures Hanil to Alabama Jul 25, 2005

  Hanil USA, a subsidiary of TI Automotive Ltd.'s North American division in Warren, Mich., will assemble steel and plastic tube components at an operation in Alabama for use in fuel systems for vehicles produced at a recently opened Hyundai Motor Co. plant.

• North American auto output at 15-month high Jul 22, 2005

  North American production of family vehicles totaled 1,422,145 units in June, the highest monthly tally since March last year, up 5.5 percent from 1,348,022 the previous month and just 0.1 percent ahead of 1,420,029 in June 2004, according to data from Ward's Communications.

• Beta Steel fined $18,000 in death of worker Jul 20, 2005

  Beta Steel Corp. and a contractor face fines totaling $39,000 in connection with the death of a 45-year-old man while he was working as a contractor at the Portage, Ind., steelmaker.

• Schuff purchases Kansas assets of bankrupt Havens Steel for $4.5M Jul 20, 2005

  Steel fabricator Schuff International Inc. has purchased the Ottawa, Kan., plant of Havens Steel Co., Kansas City, Mo., for $4.5 million following approval of the deal by a federal bankruptcy judge.

• Fire destroys Shenango conveyor belt, unrelated to emission issues Jul 20, 2005

  A fire at Shenango Inc. destroyed a conveyor belt and its electrical and lighting systems.

• Steel Technologies' quarterly income off 46.2% Jul 20, 2005

  Reduced demand and softer prices contributed to a 46.2-percent decline in fiscal third-quarter net income at Steel Technologies Inc. despite a 10.5-percent increase in sales compared with the same period last year.

• Fire destroys Shenango conveyor belt, unrelated to emission issues Jul 19, 2005

  A weekend fire at Shenango Inc. destroyed a conveyor belt and its electrical and lighting systems.

• Intermet equity financing plan rejected by bankruptcy court Jul 18, 2005

  A bankruptcy court has denied Intermet Corp.'s motion to enter an equity financing commitment, although it still has the right to resubmit the request.

• GM sticks with bankrupt Tower as settlement is filed with court Jul 18, 2005

  General Motors Corp., Detroit, has agreed to continue purchasing components for several auto models from Tower Automotive Inc. as the supplier struggles to emerge from bankruptcy court protection.

• Automakers, Energy to spend $195M on R&D Jul 18, 2005

  U.S.-based automakers and the Department of Energy (DOE) will spend $195 million over the next five years on research and development of lightweight materials and advanced battery technologies.

• Machine tool consumption remains steady Jul 15, 2005

  U.S. machine tool consumption totaled $249.79 million in May, up 4.4 percent from a revised $239.21 million the previous month and 22.7 percent ahead of $203.65 million in May 2004, according to a joint report by the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association, Rockville, Md., and the Association for Manufacturing Technology, McLean, Va.

• Metals USA taps 2 for Bennett posts Jul 12, 2005

  Steel and specialty metals service center group Metals USA Inc., Houston, has named two executives to take over its Plates & Shapes Group from Bill Bennett, who resigned as senior vice president of Metals USA and president of the group.

• Powder metal shipments stride higher in '04 Jul 12, 2005

  Powder metal shipments gained strength again in 2004 as the industry returned to a pattern of growth that was broken earlier in the decade, the Metal Powder Industries Federation said.

• Pine Valley opens its Willow Creek metallurgical coal mine in Canada Jul 12, 2005

  Pine Valley Mining Corp. has established what it says is Canada's first major metallurgical coal mine in more than 20 years.

• Powder metal shipments stride higher in '04 Jul 11, 2005

  Powder metal shipments gained strength again in 2004 as the industry returned to a pattern of growth that was broken earlier in the decade, the Metal Powder Industries Federation said.

• Pine Valley opens its Willow Creek metallurgical coal mine in Canada Jul 11, 2005

  Pine Valley Mining Corp. has established what it says is Canada's first major metallurgical coal mine in more than 20 years.

• Dana signs two deals for heat-treat technology Jul 11, 2005

  Automotive components manufacturer Dana Corp. has signed agreements with German and Austrian heat-treating systems manufacturers to develop a microwave atmospheric plasma technology Dana originated.

• Construction contracts slip but still strong Jul 08, 2005

  The value of new construction contracts slipped 1 percent in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $591.5 billion.

• Canadian gold miner eyeing leap into iron ore as property evaluated Jul 07, 2005

  A Canadian gold mining company is studying whether its property also could be valuable as an iron ore source.

• Import pioneer Harold Ames dies Jul 06, 2005

  Harold S. Ames, founder of Non-Ferrous International Corp., one of the first companies to bring European and Japanese metal into the United States, has died at Long Island's North Shore University Hospital after a long illness.

• Servimetal buys stainless products supplier Jul 06, 2005

  Metal products processor Servimetal Inc., Caguas, Puerto Rico, has purchased Perry Products of Puerto Rico Inc., said to be the island's largest supplier of stainless steel tubular and long products.