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Mill Steel Co., which processes and distributes flat-rolled steel, expanded its painted-products distribution capacity and corporate offices this month.
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SunCoke Energy Inc. expects to increase annual metallurgical coke output by 15 percent once its Middletown, Ohio, facility goes into commercial production next month.
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Light vehicle production in Mexico is heading for a 10-percent increase this year over 2010, according to the executive president of the country’s automotive industry association.
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Moody’s Investors Service is reviewing the ratings of Ford Motor Co. for a possible upgrade following the announcement that the company had reached a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers (UAW) union on a four-year labor contract.
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As Boeing Co. works down what was once a massive titanium inventory overhang, the aerospace giant is looking ahead to the "out years" when Boeing’s requirements will exceed its contracted supply agreements.
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The Port of Brunswick, Ga., posted a record fiscal year for automotive and machinery, with the volume increasing 50.6 percent vs. a 15.6-percent growth rate for the United States overall. The port handled 465,342 vehicles in the 12 months ended June 30.
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Horsehead Corp. has signed a 10-year agreement with Nucor Corp. to expand and extend the companies’ existing commercial relationship for the supply of electric arc furnace (EF) dust.
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AK Steel Corp. has made two major moves to lock in a portion of its long-term raw materials supply in an effort to reduce its exposure to escalating input costs and to improve its consistently "squeezed" margins, the company’s top executive said.
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Mazda Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. will adopt the use of "ultra-high-tensile" steels in future vehicle models, the automakers said.
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Velocity Minerals Ltd. is paying $50 million to a company holding leases on metallurgical coal resources in Arkansas in exchange for a 50-percent interest in the project.
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Ford Motor Co. has reached a tentative four-year labor agreement with the United Auto Workers (UAW) union.
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General Motors Co. broke ground Tuesday on a $331-million expansion of its assembly plant in Arlington, Texas.
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As General Motors Co. rolls out its new Chevrolet Colorado midsize pickup this fall throughout the Asia-Pacific region, it is emphasizing the truck’s new global family of turbo-diesel four-cylinder engines.
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German automaker Audi AG is expected to announce plans for its first North American production facility in the coming months as it looks to expand its manufacturing footprint beyond Europe and Asia.
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Arch Coal Inc. has selected banking sector executive Jeffrey W. Strobel to serve as its vice president of business development and strategy.
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Robert W. "Trey" Karlovich III will step up as Atlas Pipeline Partners LP’s new chief financial officer on Oct. 31, coinciding with the resignation of Eric T. Kalamaras from that post.
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Ford Motor Co. has reached a tentative four-year labor agreement with the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, the two parties said Tuesday.
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The U.S. Senate is looking ahead to a week of open debate on the currency reform bill that passed overwhelmingly Monday evening by a 79-to-19 vote.
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U.S. light vehicle sales by each of Detroit’s Big Three outpaced Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. for a fifth month in September as the Japanese automaker continued to feel the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami.
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J.D. Power & Associates Inc. has lowered slightly its forecasts for global light vehicle sales in 2011 from earlier projections after a slower-than-expected first half.
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Mexico’s auto industry produced 1,680,372 vehicles in the first eight months of this year, up 14.8 percent from the same period last year, according to the Mexican Automotive Industry Association.
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Auto industry supplier Grupo Industrial Saltillo SA de CV (GIS) plans to more than double its production capacity in the next two years to 180,000 tonnes from 84,000 tonnes.
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Major ocean shipping lines plan to hike rates in November on containerized scrap shipments from the West Coast.
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Marmon/Keystone Canada Inc.’s Leduc, Alberta, facility has installed a new Hyd-Mech H14A horizontal band saw.