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Structural steel fabricator Banker Steel Co. will begin producing remotely constructed building modules at its 50,000-square-foot expansion in Lynchburg, Va., next week as the company sets its sights on a growing market.
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Specialty metals distributor A.M. Castle & Co. fell further into the red in the first quarter.
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Service Center Metals LLC (SCM) has lowered prices on all products by 2.5 cents per pound.
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Noble Energy Inc. is restructuring its operations "to support the material growth it is anticipating over the next several years," the company said.
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Lucas-Milhaupt Inc., a subsidiary of Handy & Harman Ltd., has acquired Wolverine Joining Technologies, a subsidiary of Wolverine Tube Inc.
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Chrysler Group LLC’s first-quarter net income tumbled 64.9 percent from the same period last year, which the automaker blamed on reduced vehicle shipments because of key product launches.
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As the volume of crude oil shipments by rail continues to accelerate, more Class I railroads are teaming up with producers, refineries, pipeline and terminal operators, and others to move the product to consumption points.
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Alliance Steel LLC has hired Garrett Sparacio as director of national sales to develop and manage the company’s sales across the United States.
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Chrysler Group LLC will invest $19.6 million in its Toledo machining plant in Perrysburg, Ohio, to increase its production capacity for new torque converters.
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North American railroads say they are seeing the benefits of increased shipments of motor vehicles and auto parts and are preparing to service new factories in Mexico as they look to take advantage of the automotive sector’s growth.
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An Indiana foundry has launched a new casting aimed at expanding its product mix to cater to the firearms industry.
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Norfolk Southern Corp. has informed shippers that they might experience delays lasting up to 24 hours as floods in the Midwest have forced the company to reroute some trains.
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TransCanada Corp. has again pushed back its targeted start-up date for its controversial Keystone XL pipeline, and now expects the project to be in service by the second half of 2015.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior is offering more than 21 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration in a lease sale.
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Specialty metals and stainless steel producer Carpenter Technology Corp. blames increased customer deferrals for lower-than-expected earnings in its fiscal third quarter.
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Carpenter Technology Corp. and Universal Stainless & Alloy Products Inc. have both announced contract wins with Rolls-Royce Plc.
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Soft demand and weak carbon steel pricing are likely to persist during the rest of 2013, Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. executives say.
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John B. "Bart" Williams, 71, a former top salesman at Taylor Steel Inc., died April 22.
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Primary and fabricated metals shipments and new orders all improved strongly in March compared with the previous month, while inventories were mixed.
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The U.S. State Department’s supplemental environmental impact statement (DSEIS) on TransCanada Corp.’s rerouted Keystone XL pipeline "strengthened the analysis presented to date" but did not adequately address potential risks, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
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Citing a ministerial error in an anti-dumping duty administrative review of steel nails from China from April 1, 2010, to July 31, 2011, the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration has revised the weighted-average dumping margins.
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Ford Motor Co. will continue to invest in the United States and other parts of North America as auto sales increase and as its market share rises incrementally, executives say.
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A large north American vehicle manufacturer will use ArcelorMittal SA’s steels in its lightweight vehicles, Prabhat Rastogi, the steelmaker’s worldwide sales and marketing manager, said April 24.
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Precision metal stamper Larson Tool Co. has promoted Manny Resendes to quality assurance manager.