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The steel pipe and tube sector appears to be banking on better fortunes in the first quarter of 2011, according to a survey by Perspectives.
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The steel pipe and tube sector appears to be banking on better fortunes in the first quarter of 2011, according to a survey by Perspectives.
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North American Stainless Inc. (NAS) will use excess capacity to supply parent company Acerinox SA with material following a fire at the Spanish company's Roldan plant, an Acerinox spokesman told AMM.
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West Coast flat-rolled steel producers are looking to implement further price hikes as they open their books for product to be delivered in February.
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Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. has entered a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Amix Salvage & Sales Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia.
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ArcelorMittal SA has received the required regulatory approvals to purchase all shares of Baffinland Iron Mines Corp., which owns the Mary River property in Canada’s Nunavut territory.
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Titanium mill shapes reversed course last month, with the Producer Price Index (PPI) for the group falling 10.3 percent following a month-on-month gain in October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday. The November index also trailed the year-earlier PPI by 8.8 percent.
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Nucor Corp. is seeking to boost capacity at its Marion, Ohio, facility, which produces concrete reinforcing bar, rounds and signposts.
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The aging Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. (PG&E) natural gas pipeline that killed eight people when it exploded in September in San Bruno, Calif., ruptured in part along a seam weld, according to government investigators.
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SM Energy Co. doesn’t plan to take legal action against Indian oil country tubular goods producer Maharashtra Seamless Ltd. for pipe that purportedly failed in an Oklahoma well.
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U.S. manufacturers are urging the Senate to pass legislation aimed at ending China’s currency manipulation.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel found in favor of the United States in a complaint brought by China challenging President Obama’s decision to impose Section 421 tariffs on imports of Chinese tires.
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The number of drill rigs running in the United States increased by 10 last week, led by Texas (up four), while Canadian drilling activity jumped by 33 rigs compared with the previous week.
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Essar Steel Algoma Inc. is prepared to lay off up to 12.5 percent of its work force due to weak steel market conditions.
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U.S. raw steel output totaled 1,683,000 net tons last week as mills operated at an average capability utilization rate of 69.6 percent, down 0.8 percent from 1,697,000 tons the previous week.
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Sweden’s Svenskt Stal AB (SSAB) on Tuesday appointed Martin Lindqvist as its new chief executive officer, replacing Olof Faxander, who will become the new president and chief executive officer of Swedish special and tool steel producer Sandvik AB.
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China’s daily crude steel output rose for a second month in a row in November to 1.67 million tonnes, up 3.1 percent from October. The increase was led by a 10.2-percent month-on-month gain in hot-rolled coil production.
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West Coast flat-rolled steel producers are looking to implement further price hikes as they open their books for product to be delivered in February.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel found in favor of the United States in a complaint brought by China challenging President Obama’s decision to impose Section 421 tariffs on imports of Chinese tires.
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North American Stainless Inc. (NAS) will use excess capacity to supply parent company Acerinox SA with material following a fire at the Spanish company’s Roldan plant, an Acerinox spokesman told AMM.
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Electronic waste recycler Universal Recycling Technologies LLC (URT) plans to open its ninth facility, including second in Janesville, Wis.
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Grede Holdings LLC, which runs several gray and ductile iron foundries, will relocate its corporate headquarters Monday to Southfield, Mich., from Novi, Mich.
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Nucor Corp. is seeking to boost capacity at its Marion, Ohio, facility, which produces concrete reinforcing bar, rounds and signposts.
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Sweden’s Svenskt Stal AB (SSAB) on Tuesday appointed Martin Lindqvist as its new chief executive officer, replacing Olof Faxander, who will become the new president and chief executive officer of Swedish special and tool steel producer Sandvik AB.