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Joseph Freilich, the founder of what is now Universal Metal Corp., Worcester, Mass., died recently at age 90.
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Material Sciences Corp. (MSC), Elk Grove Village, Ill., said it has elected Clifford D. Nastas, its chief operating officer, to the additional post of president, with Jeffrey J. Siemers, chief financial officer, also taking on new assignments.
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U.S. Steel Kosice s.r.o. (USSK), the Slovakian arm of U.S. Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, said Thursday it has taken its No. 2 blast furnace offline for a partial reline.
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U.S. Steel Kosice s.r.o. (USSK), the Slovakian arm of U.S. Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, said Thursday it has taken its No. 2 blast furnace offline for a partial reline.
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London Metal Exchange stocks available to fulfill North American aluminum alloy transactions jumped 2.3 percent Wednesday following the arrival of $3.9 million of material in Baltimore.
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Cobalt refiner OM Group Inc., Cleveland, released unaudited financial statements for the first quarter of 2005 Thursday after a delay caused by an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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AK Steel Corp., Middletown, Ohio, said Thursday it planned to increase transaction prices for its regular grain-oriented and Tran-Cor H electrical steel products effective with shipments Aug. 1.
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Steel and aluminum processor and distributor Novamerican Steel Inc., Montreal, said net income during its fiscal second quarter ended May 28 declined 57.8 percent to $8.7 million on sales that increased 6.7 percent to $13.7 million from the year-earlier quarter.
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Dubose Strapping Inc., Clinton, N.C., said it was beginning promotion of a new heat-treating process it has developed that allows the production of high-tensile steel strapping without the use of lead in the quench system.
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Die-casting company Spartan Light Metal Products Inc., St. Louis, has appointed Andrew Masterman to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer in a reflection of the company's growth and strategic planning.
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Service center giant Ryerson Tull Inc. expects to cut an undetermined number of jobs as part of a preliminary plan to consolidate facilities and restructure its organization following the $644-million purchase of the Integris Metals Inc. service center group earlier this year.
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Worthington Industries Inc.'s net income more than doubled to a record $179.4 million in its fiscal year ended May 31 from $86.8 million the previous year on sales that jumped 29.4 percent to a record $3.08 billion.
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Steel processor Steel Technologies Inc., Louisville, Ky., expects to report lower-than-anticipated shipments and increased margin compression in its fiscal third quarter ending June 30.
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Metal-based components manufacturer Metaldyne Corp., Plymouth, Mich., said it will combine expertise in metal forming, aluminum die-casting and machining and assembly in a new contract to supply transmission clutch modules for a new Ford Motor Co. transmission.
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Laminated steel producer Material Sciences Corp. has returned to profitability, posting net income of $859,000 in its fiscal year ended Feb. 28 in contrast to a $13.9-million net loss the previous year on sales that rose 8.9 percent to $264.9 million.
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Ferguson Metals Inc. plans to break ground on a $1.3-million expansion by the end of this month.
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North American production of family vehicles totaled 1,344,366 units in May, down 1.1 percent from 1,359,334 the previous month and 0.7 percent from 1,353,411 in May 2004, according to data from Ward's Communications.
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U.S. machine tool consumption totaled $257.39 million in April, down 8.3 percent from a revised $280.55 million the previous month but up 29 percent from $199.60 million in April 2004, according to a joint report by the American Machine Tool Distributors' Association, Rockville, Md., and the Association for Manufacturing Technology, McLean, Va.
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Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co., Phillipsburg, N.J., a division of McWane Inc., has awarded a contract for a new cupola emission control system to Kuttner LLC, Port Washington, Wis.
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CHICAGO - Alcoa Inc.'s Alcoa Fastening Systems (AFS) business has supplied more than 130 varieties of fasteners for a solar-powered car designed by students at the University of Michigan for a two-country race.
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Automotive parts supplier Dana Corp., Toledo, Ohio, has been awarded the first patent for its AtmoPlas microwave atmospheric plasma-heating technology for plasma-assisted joining of metal components.
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Brush Wellman Inc.'s Alloy Products Group has introduced a copper-beryllium alloy strip product for use in contacts and interconnects in automotive, white goods appliances, data communications and telecommunications applications, along with burn-in and test socket uses.
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The New York Mercantile Exchange has formed a 50-50 joint venture with Dubai Holding, an investment arm of the Dubai government, called the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME).
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The value of new construction contracts increased 2 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $599.6 billion. Nonresidential building continued to show improvement after its weak performance at the beginning of this year, residential building was essentially steady and nonbuilding construction (public works and utilities) registered a moderate decline, according to the McGraw-Hill Construction division of the McGraw-Hill Cos., New York.