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U.S. advocates for Chinese currency reform are receiving a boost from euro-zone finance ministers, even as the House and Senate appear ready to delay introducing any bills until next year.
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Metals suppliers to Chrysler LLC were withholding opinions on the likely impact of a strike after unionized workers walked off the job and began picketing the third-largest Detroit-area automaker Wednesday.
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Barclays Bank Plc and the China Development Bank (CDB) are forming a five-year strategic alliance focused on metals, emissions and energy trading.
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Tubular products distributor Marmon/Keystone Corp., Butler, Pa., has appointed Ron Lenhart national marketing manager responsible for promoting hollow structural and hot-rolled seamless tubing product lines.
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The Electric Metal Makers Guild (EMMG) has awarded Edgar Richard Wünsche, founder and president emeritus of Engineered Metal Products Co. (Empco), the Billy Wallis Founders Award.
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A.M. Castle & Co., Franklin Park, Ill., has named Michael Zundel to succeed Steven Scheinkman as president and chief executive officer of its Transtar Metals unit. Scheinkman will continue in an advisory capacity to the end of the year, executives said.
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Consol Energy Inc., Pittsburgh, has acquired additional transportation assets to haul its coal.
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Seven months after taking on a private equity investor, Clinton Aluminum & Stainless Steel Sales, Clinton, Ohio, has replaced the founding family’s top executive with two new hires to fill the chief executive officer and president posts.
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Chrysler LLC, Auburn Hills, Mich., is planning to cut an additional 5 percent of its salaried and contract work force as a deadline approaches for a new contract with its unionized workers.
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U.S. companies operating in China reported further market expansion in China this year, but say they continue to face difficulties finding qualified personnel and navigating Chinese government bureaucracy.
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The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has told Chrysler LLC that it has until midweek to wrap up a tentative labor contract or face the prospect of a strike by the company's almost 50,000 hourly employees, sources close to the negotiations said.
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The U.S. Defense National Stockpile Center (DNSC) is “wholly ineffective” at responding in the event of a national emergency or national security threat, according to a report by the National Research Council (NRC).
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TriMas Corp., Bloomfield, Mich., is closing a plant in Huntsville, Ontario, that manufactures trailer hitches and related accessories for cars and light trucks, eliminating 163 jobs.
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New technology in the coke-making business won’t affect the aluminum industry in the short term but could create problems over the long haul, market participants said at a recent conference.
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It's probably a good thing Robert Darnall chose a career in steel instead of breeding horses.
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The MV Heng Tai, a Chinese cargo vessel carrying iron ore from the port of Haldia in India, sank last week about 200 miles southwest of Port Blair in the Andaman Sea.
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Sen. Max Baucus (D., Mont.) laid out an ambitious congressional trade agenda this week, urging the United States to pursue additional bilateral deals despite new statistics showing a public deeply skeptical about the benefits of free trade.
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Precoat Metals, a division of Sequa Corp., New York, has purchased the assets of Chesapeake Finished Metals Inc. (CFM), Elkridge, Md., from ceiling systems manufacturer Chicago Metallic Corp. for an undisclosed price.
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United Auto Workers union local leaders have unanimously approved a tentative four-year labor deal with General Motors Corp., Detroit
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Gibraltar Industries Inc., Buffalo, N.Y., will close its Hubbell Steel service center subsidiary in Franklin Park, Ill., before the end of the year and sell the unit’s assets.
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Two companies protesting the award of a contract to rebuild the Minnesota highway bridge that collapsed in August sent a letter to the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MDOT) this week demanding it release the scoring data and technical proposals behind the bidding contest.
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A.M. Castle & Co., Franklin Park, Ill., has sold its Metal Mart LLC subsidiary, which has 15 locations doing small-order business as Metal Express, to a unit of Metal Supermarkets Corp., Mississauga, Ontario, for around $6.7 million.
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Distributor Russel Metals Inc. has completed its $118.6-million purchase of JMS Metals Services Inc.
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Novamerican Steel Inc., LaSalle, Quebec, said the Superior Court of Quebec has issued an interim order providing for a special shareholders meeting Oct. 31 to vote on the company’s proposed $585.2-million acquisition by Symmetry Holdings Inc., New York.