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U.S. ferrous scrap exports rose slightly in October despite a sharp one-month decline in shipments to Turkey and a milder one to Canada.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has proposed extending its Steel Import Monitoring Analysis (SIMA) system beyond the scheduled expiration date of March 21.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has proposed extending its Steel Import Monitoring Analysis (SIMA) system beyond the scheduled expiry date of March 21.
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Nucor-Yamato Steel Co. has initiated a cautious attempt to reverse a recent slide in wide-flange beam prices with a hike that reflects half of an increase in its scrap surcharge.
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It looks set to be late 2009 at the earliest before the incoming Obama administration attempts to restart the stalled Doha Round global trade talks, after the World Trade Organization dropped a meeting of trade ministers that had been planned for the coming weeks.
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Japanese steelmakers said they are to join the newly launched domestic carbon trading scheme as a group, rather than as individual companies, as they attempt to cut the sector’s carbon dioxide emissions by 9 percent in 2008 to 2012 compared with 1990 levels.
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Super Steel Products Corp., Milwaukee, will start laying off workers Jan. 21 at a plant in Glenville, N.Y., ahead of a closure of the facility scheduled for April.
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Dry bulk shipping company Western Bulk Carriers KS has sued ArcelorMittal SA for $5.4 million for breach of contract, according to legal documents filed in New York.
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China’s crude steel output reached its lowest level so far this year in November, falling to 35.2 million tonnes, though the pace of decline slowed compared with a month earlier.
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Plymouth Tube Co. has warned that it will lay off 31 employees at its East Troy, Wis., facility in the New Year.
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A worker has received what his attorney is calling a record $48-million award from a Lake County, Ind., jury as compensation for severe injuries he suffered in a fall from a ladder at the Burns Harbor, Ind., steel mill then operated by International Steel Group Inc. (ISG).
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Super Steel Products Corp., Milwaukee, will start laying off workers Jan. 21 at a plant in Glenville, N.Y., ahead of a closure of the facility scheduled for April.
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Plymouth Tube Co. has warned that it will lay off 31 employees at its East Troy, Wis., facility in the New Year.
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Fisher Tank Co. is spending $6 million to relocate and expand its South Carolina operation.
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Rourkela Steel has awarded a contract to SMS Demag AG, Düsseldorf, Germany, for the supply of an X-Cast slab caster.
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The No. 1 blast furnace has been shut down at the Intendente Camara mill of Brazilian flat steelmaker Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA (Usiminas).
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ArcelorMittal SA is trimming its stake in German heavy plate mill Dillinger Hütte to 33.4 percent from 51.25 percent, ending efforts to gain full control of the mill.
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SMS Demag Process Technologies GmbH, Vienna, Austria, has been recently awarded a contract to supply what it calls the world’s largest hydrochloric acid regeneration plant for the new integrated rolling mill of ThyssenKrupp Steel USA LLC in Calvert, Ala.
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An Earle M. Jorgensen Co. (EMJ) employee died during the weekend after getting his head caught in a machine at the company’s Schaumburg, Ill., facility.
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A man is suing West Virginia Steel Corp. for injuries suffered when a die fell on him, leaving him with crushing injuries.
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The idled Sago Mine in Buckhannon, W.Va., will be closed permanently in the first quarter by the Wolf Run Mining Co. unit of International Coal Group Inc. (ICG).
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A man is suing West Virginia Steel Corp. for injuries suffered when a die fell on him, leaving him with crushing injuries.
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International Coal Group Inc.’s (ICG’s) Wolf Run Mining Co. unit will permanently close the idled Sago Mine in Buckhannon, W.Va., in the first quarter next year.
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SMS Demag Process Technologies GmbH, Vienna, Austria, was recently awarded a contract to supply what it calls the world’s largest hydrochloric acid regeneration plant for the new integrated rolling mill of ThyssenKrupp Steel USA LLC in Calvert, Ala.