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Raw steel production bounced back last week, rising 1.3 percent to 1,519,000 net tons, after two consecutive weekly declines.
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Structural and reinforcing steel fabricator Pacific Coast Steel (PCS) has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to enforce fired executive Todd Leany’s employment and non-competition agreements.
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Latrobe Specialty Steel Co.’s president and chief executive officer, Hans Sack, has resigned.
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Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. on Monday questioned the credibility of its rival in a bidding war for Freewest Resources Canada Inc. as it pushed for Freewest shareholders to back its Canadian $211-million ($201-million) friendly takeover offer.
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Erie Coke Corp. has acknowledged that it is “a major source for some contaminants” but said regulatory agencies missed the statute of limitations on some of the allegations.
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Latrobe Specialty Steel Co.’s president and chief executive officer, Hans Sack, has resigned.
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Structural and reinforcing steel fabricator Pacific Coast Steel (PCS) has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to enforce fired executive Todd Leany’s employment and non-competition agreements.
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A union motion for a temporary restraining order against Kane Steel Co. was withdrawn one day after it was filed.
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Schuff Steel Co. has completed its acquisition of a steel fabrication plant and other assets from Strocal Inc.
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Essar Steel Algoma Inc. has priced its offering of senior unsecured notes and will issue $400-million aggregate principle amount of senior secured notes due 2015.
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Selling prices in a quarterly regional auction of carbon allowances closed 6.4 percent lower than the previous public sale and 36.5 percent lower than June’s auction due to an ongoing oversupply of the units.
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Canada has added its name to the list of country’s going after China for alleged unfair trade in oil country tubular goods (OCTG).
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Perspectives continues to be fascinated by just how dramatically the landscape shaped by the oil country tubular goods (OCTG) import market has changed over the last year.
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If you attended the International Trade Commission’s public hearing Nov. 30 on imports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from China, you could perhaps be forgiven if you assumed the case had been initiated by the states of Pennsylvania and Ohio.
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Canada’s Lakeside Steel Inc. plans to increase production in January with the addition of a production shift on its electric-resistance weld (ERW) 2- to 8-inch mill to meet increased demand.
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The number of law firms filing class-action complaints against Northwest Pipe Co. following its disclosure about possible accounting problems has grown to at least three.
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Hey, V&M Star, what’s up with your potential $1-billion plans for Youngstown, Ohio?
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This much perhaps we can all agree on the best thing about 2009 is that it’s almost over.
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China’s Tianjin Pipe Group Corp. (TPCO) continues to move forward with plans to construct a tubular mill in Texas.
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The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has accused Columbus Steel Castings Co. of failing to implement a court-ordered plan to correct major air pollution problems at its foundry on the south side of Columbus.
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U.S. ferrous scrap exporters are poised for another flurry of scrap buying by Turkish steelmakers, one U.S. scrap trader said.
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At least two major metal brokers have lapsed into inactivity on the steel futures market, citing doubts as to whether or not the fledgling contract is poised to take off.
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More hot air, or laying the groundwork for meaningful action in the future? That’s one of the key questions emerging from President Obama’s Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth at the White House.
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Production has resumed at Venezuelan hot-briquetted iron (HBI) producer Venprecar after a stoppage of nearly two months, a senior executive at the company said.