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Lisa Harrison has been appointed senior vice president of communications at the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) effective Jan. 14, filling the role vacated by Nancy Gravatt.
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Energex Tube has laid off 94 employees at its operations in Welland, Ontario, and the city’s mayor and a union official say that the company is considering permanently closing a pipe mill at the location.
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Russia’s Evraz Group has separated its iron ore and coal mining divisions to "intensify the management of key product groups," the company said Thursday.
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AMM’s website will not be accessible the evening of Friday, Dec. 14, through Sunday, Dec. 16, as we make essential updates to improve performance.
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Nucor Corp. has purchased parts of the former RG Steel LLC cold mill complex in Sparrows Point, Md., and intends to use the equipment for upgrades and replacement parts at its existing cold mills, a company executive told AMM.
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The U.S. flat-rolled steel import market is surprisingly quiet, and the outlook for the first quarter doesn’t look any better, traders say.
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West Coast structural steel tubing producers appear to be achieving at least partial success in scratching out a price hike amid slow demand that leaves room for occasional discounting by tonnage-hungry mills.
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Domestic flat-rolled producers have pushed steel buyers to book at higher offer levels since announcing a round of price increases in the past week, but the prospect of rising prices has done little to spur additional business, steel buyers said.
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Ten senators led by Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) and Rob Portman (R., Ohio) have endorsed a letter urging the U.S. Commerce Department to "extend all efforts" to better enforce anti-dumping and countervailing duties on Chinese shipments of oil country tubular goods (OCTG).
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Global steelmaker ArcelorMittal SA and its domestic counterpart, ArcelorMittal USA Inc., will restructure their sales frameworks in the United States to allow the same sales representatives to sell both domestic and imported flat-rolled steel to U.S. customers, sources familiar with the situation confirmed.
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A federal judge in Alabama has set a date to hear ThyssenKrupp Steel USA LLC’s complaint alleging that a Georgia contractor is responsible for more than $75,000 worth of defects at the steelmaker’s hot-strip mill in Calvert, Ala.
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The Canadian International Trade Tribunal has found that the dumping of carbon steel welded pipe (½ inch up to 6 inches in outside diameter), also known as standard pipe, from India, Oman, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates and the subsidizing of the same product from India are threatening to cause injury to the domestic industry.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) Binational Panel, a division of the U.S. Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration, has issued an affirmative final anti-dumping duty determination on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Canada.
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NanoSteel Co. has named Craig Parsons president of its automotive business as the company moves toward commercial production of its new advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) sheet.
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Mexico’s transformation industries want the country’s new government under President Enrique Peña Nieto to create "a new legal department" that is "powerful" and "has the resources to face (up to) unfair trade practices," according to an executive with the country’s Chamber of Transformation Industries (Canacintra).
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U.S. metallurgical coal exports are on course to decline next year while global trade is forecast to rise due to "strong import growth in China and India," Australia’s Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics said in a report Wednesday.
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The yen remains too overvalued for Japanese steelmakers to compete effectively with regional suppliers, despite the Japanese currency’s recent decline in value, industry officials say.
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Talks between Max Aicher North America Inc. (MANA) and United Steelworkers union Local 1005 failed to produce a new labor agreement, both sides told AMM Tuesday.
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Despite vociferous opposition from labor and the White House, unions apparently have lost a legislative battle in the blue-collar heartland of Michigan.
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Global demand for commodities likely will survive domestic and global threats such as the fiscal cliff and the euro crisis over the next two years, buoyed by global growth and a stronger Chinese economy, analysts said at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research 2013 Year Ahead news conference Tuesday.
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The domestic reinforcing bar market is poised to hold steady heading into the new year as one producer said it plans to keep prices unchanged after a recent sideways move in scrap. But the picture could change in the coming months with an anticipated pickup in demand, sources said.
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A steel wire manufacturer and a steel processor have each moved up dividend payments, part of a trend among publicly held companies to allow shareholders to avoid a possible tax increase next year, according to an equities research firm.
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Published structural steel prices will remain steady into the new year as the market leader in wide-flange beams this week announced plans to hold prices unchanged for Jan. 1 shipments.
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Nucor Corp. has left its January raw materials surcharge for special bar quality (SBQ) products unchanged at $11 per hundredweight ($220 per ton), the Charlotte, N.C.-based steelmaker said in a Dec. 10 letter to customers.