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Superior Essex Inc. plans to further expand its Fort Wayne, Ind., manufacturing operations, creating up to 15 new jobs by next year.
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AMM’s offices will be closed Monday, Oct. 12, in observance of Columbus Day, and there will be no issue dated Tuesday, Oct. 13. Both the London Metal Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange will be open Monday, and prices will appear in the Wednesday, Oct. 14, issue.
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To the Editor: The problems with our economy started in the late 1960s, when the Japanese began exporting more of their larger-ticket items to the United States while receiving government subsidies.
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Heraeus Electro-Nite Co. LLC, which makes sensors and samplers that measure, monitor and control molten metal processes, will halt production at its Peru, Ind., plant by year’s end, citing the low capacity utilization of the U.S. steel industry and an expectation that steel-consuming industries face a slow recovery.
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Metals trade associations are feeling the impact of an Obama administration decision to bar lobbyists, including some association officials, from serving on industry trade advisory committees (ITACs) to federal agencies.
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Due to the collapse in non-residential construction, and notwithstanding an expected recovery of residential building in the second half of 2009, total construction spending in the United States is expected to fall 12 percent this year and 4 percent in 2010, according to construction service analysts at IHS Global Insight.
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Metals trade associations are feeling the impact of an Obama administration decision to bar lobbyists, including some association officials, from serving on industry trade advisory committees (ITACs) to federal agencies.
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The Obama administration is working to exempt Canada from “Buy American” provisions, an official at the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) office has confirmed.
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A report outlining the impact that climate-change legislation could have on the economy suggests that more than four million jobs could be at risk unless Congress includes safeguards to help manufacturers deal with stricter standards and prevent carbon leakage.
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The Obama administration is working to exempt Canada from “Buy American” provisions, an official at the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) office has confirmed.
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To the Editor:
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‘Buy American’ is a joke
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Love it or hate it, everybody has something to say about the climate-change/cap-and-trade legislation, the latest iteration of which came out of the Senate in the past week.
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The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) will back legislation already passed by the House calling for the creation of a $30-billion revolving loan program for small and medium-sized firms aimed at boosting domestic clean energy production.
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Noting that the Great Lakes ports and locks, river locks and dams have been largely ignored by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), two industry spokesmen laid out the dangers faced if little or no improvement is made.
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Practical challenges to the infrastructure market include the magnitude of the work that needs to be done, its complexity and—perhaps most pertinently—the political process required to get anything done, according to the leader of the Steel Market Development Institute.
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The recession has had a devastating impact on infrastructure spending by states, resulting in a 4-percent decrease in overall investment this year, according to Jack Wells, chief economist for the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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The nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth will be weak through the rest of 2009 but then move closer to its pre-recession trend next year, according to the senior economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
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Aerospace components producer Ladish Co. has promoted Gary J. Vroman to president and chief executive officer following the retirement of Kerry L. Woody.
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The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) will “eviscerate what has worked for 60 years” in U.S. labor-management relations, especially with regard to the practice of good-faith bargaining, and is open to abuses “that could put employers out of business,” a labor law expert said.
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The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) will “eviscerate what has worked for 60 years” in U.S. labor-management relations, especially with regard to the practice of good-faith bargaining, and is open to abuses “that could put employers out of business,” a labor law expert said.
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In a decision that could have a major impact on steel trade with China, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) has told the Commerce Department that it must either account for the methods used in determining countervailing duties on imports from centrally planned economies or forego their use in the future.
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Although new orders and shipments continued to rise last month for primary metal producers and manufacturers of fabricated metal products, the pace of growth slowed compared with the gains seen in July vs. June.