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Thieves in Detroit who steal copper wire and other metals and then sell it as scrap might get more than they bargained for.
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Main Steel Polishing Co. Inc., Tinton Falls, N.J., has promoted George A. Bogan, the company’s president, to the additional role of chief executive officer. He succeeds Thomas J. Connell.
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John Conheeney, director of metals marketing at the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), has left the exchange just weeks before it is due to launch its eagerly awaited steel futures contract.
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The North American auto market is heading south in more ways than one next year—primarily in the number of vehicles that will be produced, but also in geographic terms.
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Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel Corp., Tokyo, will implement a production planning system at its Yawata plant in Japan.
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Denman & Davis, Clifton, N.J., has landed a contract to help build two ferries. Blount Boats Inc., Warren, R.I., commissioned the service center to provide steel plate and value-added metalworking services for its current ferry projects.
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The number of new anti-dumping investigations among the major trading countries declined 46.7 percent in the first six months of this year, while the number of new measures implemented was 20 percent lower, according to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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With gas prices spiraling and pollution control a hot topic on the street as well as in the halls of power, the car of the future might be small—very small.
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Auto parts supplier Delphi Corp. is seeking to cut the size of a financing arrangement for its emergence from bankruptcy protection in the wake of recent credit-market turmoil.
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It's no surprise that the United Steelworkers union and the conservative editorial board of the Wall Street Journal rarely see eye to eye, but the bad blood got even worse recently when the newspaper blasted Senate Democrats for voting to cut the budget of the Office of Labor Management Standards, which monitors union corruption.
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Canadian authorities have announced plans to spend billions to upgrade infrastructure in the wake of a scathing report on the causes of a deadly bridge collapse in Laval, Quebec.
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Navistar International Corp., Warrenville, Ill., is in advanced talks with General Motors Corp., Detroit, to buy the automaker’s medium truck business, including the right to manufacture GMC and Chevrolet trucks.
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The U.S. Commerce Department has once again called for public comment about the possibility of granting market-economy status to individual Chinese companies.
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Automotive component manufacturer Intermet Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, has named a new ferrous group president and sales and strategy executive vice president while also announcing the departure of the president of its die-cast group.
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About 4,000 United Auto Workers union members at nine International Truck & Engine Corp. plants have gone on strike, citing unfair labor practices.
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ThyssenKrupp Industrial Services NA, a unit of Southfield, Mich.-based ThyssenKrupp Materials NA Inc. and Düsseldorf, Germany-based ThyssenKrupp AG, has opened a 92,000-square-foot logistics facility in Danville, Ill.
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Neil S. Novich has been ousted as chairman, president and chief executive officer of Ryerson Inc., Chicago, and two other top executives have left the company in what was described as a “comprehensive reorganization” launched only days after the service center company’s sale to Platinum Equity LLC.
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Dana Corp., Toledo, Ohio, has received bankruptcy court approval of a disclosure statement for its reorganization plan, authorizing the company to start soliciting creditor votes on the proposal.
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Timken Co., Canton, Ohio, has completed its acquisition of the assets of Purdy Corp., which manufactures and integrates systems for military and commercial aviation customers.
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Gray and ductile iron casting manufacturer Dexter Foundry Inc., Fairfield, Iowa, has introduced a new patent-pending iron material for abrasion-resistant applications that can be used as-cast without heat treating.
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A new steel and aluminum cleaning facility designed to process both new steel and distressed coil steel and aluminum for service centers, distributors and insurance companies is expected to begin operation in Erie, Mich., next May.
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Despite some inconvenience and limited absenteeism, wildfires raging in southern California have had no impact on the region’s metals industry, according to an AMM spot survey.
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Not counting on a quick turnaround, Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. might be trimming its payroll soon.
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Despite financial market turbulence, high oil prices and weakness in the U.S. housing sector, the global economy’s overall fundamentals continue to be strong, finance ministers from the Group of Seven said following their weekend meeting in Washington.