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Future Metals Inc., Tamarac, Fla., has promoted Terry Ball to general sales manager.
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The Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) has named Wayne Boeckman as its new chairman and Gretchen Zierick as first vice chair.
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Employers initiated 1,330 mass layoff events in the third quarter of 2008 that resulted in the separation of 218,158 workers from their jobs for at least 31 days, according to preliminary figures released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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At least 16 members of the Congressional Recycling Caucus, including two senators, won’t be returning for the new Congress next year, having lost their seats either in the Nov. 4 elections or retirement.
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Industrial production rebounded in October, rising 1.3 percent, after falling a revised 3.7 percent in September, the U.S. Federal Reserve Board reported Monday.
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The Precision Metalforming Association (PMA) has named Wayne Boeckman as its new chairman and Gretchen Zierick as first vice chair.
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China’s revision of some export taxes last week caused some head scratching, especially among the country’s ferroalloys traders.
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China’s growth is likely to continue, according to Joseph Massey, professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.
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Employers initiated 1,330 mass layoff events in the third quarter of 2008 that resulted in the separation of 218,158 workers from their jobs for at least 31 days, according to preliminary figures released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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General Motors Corp. might be getting some love from Washington, but it’s having a harder time wooing analysts and other industry observers to its cause.
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General Motors Corp. might be getting some love from Washington, but it’s having a harder time wooing analysts and other industry observers to its cause.
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The global financial crisis and tightening credit markets, coupled with a general economic slowdown, knocked down values of metals industry merger and acquisition deals in the first three quarters of this year, according to a quarterly report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), New York.
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Tenaris SA, Luxembourg, received a sharp warning from its global unions, which recently came together to sign a new unity accord to work cooperatively and strategically as partners.
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The cause of an accident at Chicago Heights Steel Corp., Chicago Heights, Ill., that resulted in the death of a 32-year old worker on Monday is under investigation.
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Global iron ore prices will drop by 20 to 30 percent in next year’s annual contracts, but the rate of decline will be less than that in the United States, Peter Kakela, professor of resources studies at Michigan State University, predicted at AMM’s 2d Annual Scrap Conference.
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Oshkosh Truck Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., has landed a major $1.2-billion U.S. Army contract to build 6,000 heavy trucks, each of which will sport about 4,000 pounds of steel-plated armor.
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The global financial crisis and tightening credit markets, coupled with a general economic slowdown, knocked down values of metals industry merger and acquisition deals in the first three quarters of this year, according to a quarterly report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), New York.
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Canadian National Railway Co. (CN), Montreal, said Tuesday that a court had denied its petition for an order compelling an immediate decision by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) to allow the sale of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. (EJ&E) from U.S. Steel Corp. to CN to close by the two parties’ Dec. 31 deadline.
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Canadian National Railway Co. (CN), Montreal, said Tuesday that a court had denied its petition for an order compelling an immediate decision by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB) to allow the sale of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. (EJ&E) from U.S. Steel Corp. to CN to close by the two parties’ Dec. 31 deadline.
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China’s planned $586-billion stimulus package is expected to boost the consumption and value of base metals across the board, but market participants say some metals are going to see more benefit than others as the fiscal injection takes effect.
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Aluminum auto parts supplier Alumetco continued its lockout of Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union members Tuesday, with no date set for resumed negotiations, according to a company executive.
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MMX Mineração e Metálicos will halt iron ore and pig iron production by the end of this month at its Corumbá Mine in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul “in light of the current global economic slowdown.”
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Commercial vehicle supplier Accuride Corp. will be de-listed from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Wednesday.
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About 85 Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union members were locked out early Monday at aluminum auto parts maker Alumetco, according to a local labor leader.