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About 3,700 United Auto Workers union members at International Truck & Engine Corp. facilities in six states are continuing to work without a contract following the expiration of their previous labor agreement at midnight Sunday.
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Exports of manufactured goods will buoy the U.S. economy as it faces its slowest growth rate in five years, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) said in an economic forecast released Monday.
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Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP, Houston, has beefed up its network of dry bulk and ferroalloys shipping terminals with the purchase of Marine Terminal Inc.’s assets for about $100 million.
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China’s continued failure to live up to its World Trade Organization (WTO) obligations remains a significant threat to U.S. businesses, metals industry representatives told a public hearing of the Trade Policy Staff Committee of the U.S. Trade Representative in Washington Thursday.
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Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has affirmed service center giant Ryerson Inc.’s B+ corporate credit rating and lifted the CreditWatch status imposed after the Chicago-based company agreed to be acquired by Platinum Equity LLC, Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Worthington Industries Inc., Columbus, Ohio, has promoted John Roberts to president of its Dietrich Metal Framing unit.
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A 54-year veteran of the titanium industry who was instrumental in developing processing technology and whose company today is involved in the latest wave of expansion will be honored by the International Titanium Association (ITA).
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Earnings at Canadian mining companies are being squeezed as the value of the Canadian dollar, up 15 percent since the beginning of this year, topped the U.S. dollar this week for the first time in 31 years.
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The brevity of the strike against General Motors Corp. will limit any impact that a more prolonged work stoppage might have had on the economy and metals suppliers, analysts said.
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New York-based investment bank J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has received approval from China’s securities regulator to set up a joint venture with Zhongshan Futures Co. Ltd. to provide futures execution and clearing in China, a Zhongshan Futures executive confirmed.
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Iron castings maker ThyssenKrupp Waupaca Inc., Waupaca, Wis., plans to spend $162 million to expand its Etowah, Tenn., operation.
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American Tank & Fabricating Co., Cleveland, has received a $1.54-million low-interest loan from the state of Ohio.
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation’s selection of Flatiron Constructors Inc. and Manson Construction, a joint venture from Colorado and Seattle, to build the Interstate 35W replacement bridge has sparked a protest from two of the losing designers and the National Steel Bridge Alliance.
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Proponents of expanded Latin American trade scored a victory Friday when the Senate Finance Committee voted 18-3 to report its recommendations regarding draft legislation to implement the Peru free-trade agreement.
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Little has changed in China since AMM first hosted a conference covering topics related to the country and its steel industry, according to U.S. steel producers. They say that currency manipulation and illegal subsidies continue to support China’s steel industry at the expense of American manufacturing jobs.
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The recent reopening of a stretch of MRS Logistica SA's "Steel Railway" that runs into the port of Rio de Janeiro provided a bit more excitement than your average railfan trip.
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The first meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers’ new infrastructure coalition generated a large turnout but little tangible progress, sources who attended the meeting said.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) issued a report Thursday which said that if the U.S.-South Korea free-trade agreement (FTA) is fully implemented, it would affect the trade and investment relationship between the two nations “substantially.”
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China’s Wuhan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. has signed a long-term contract with Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd., London, to ship about 3 million tonnes of iron ore from Brazil to China annually.
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The World Trade Organization’s appellate body will host a public forum Oct. 4 in Geneva to examine its role in the multilateral trading system.
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Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway system continue to decline, according to the Lake Carriers’ Association, Cleveland.
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Service center giant Ryerson Inc. has scheduled a special stockholder meeting Oct. 17 to vote on the $2-billion plan to merge with an affiliate of Platinum Equity LLC, Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Ranger Steel Supply Corp., Houston, has opened its fourth U.S. facility on a five-acre site straddling the border of Fontana and Bloomington, Calif., executives said.
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Paul Revere sounded an alert to colonists that the British were coming just prior to the start of the American Revolution. Of course, by the time Revere sounded his warning the British were already in the colonies and war was in the offing.