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Bonnell Aluminum Inc.’s cost-cutting measures during the recession should benefit the extruder as the economy recovers and opportunities in the automotive sector rev up, says incoming president W. Brook Hamilton.
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Brazil’s competition regulator has approved "with restrictions" the creation of a network of steel distributors and service centers by flat steel producer Usinas Siderúrgicas de Minas Gerais SA (Usiminas).
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If we want to strengthen the economy and create jobs through our vast supply of natural gas, then allowing unlimited natural gas exports isn’t the “clear choice” (amm.com, May 21)—it’s the wrong choice.
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The House of Representatives has passed a bill expediting the approval process for TransCanada Corp.’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline.
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An Illinois structural steel fabricator that slapped a lien on a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co. (BNSF) bridge in Iowa is seeking additional compensation from the railroad for work it performed in the construction of the $61.5-million bridge.
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JIT Steel Service Inc. has filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Spig Industry LLC, a manufacturer of guardrails and other finished steel products, alleging that Spig failed to pay more than $122,000 in outstanding invoices.
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The outlook among companies that stamp, form and fabricate metals products held fairly steady in May compared with April, even though some have experienced uneven order rates and shipments this year.
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An increase in nonresidential construction starts wasn’t enough to offset a decline in public works in April, resulting in a 1-point slip in the benchmark Dodge Index.
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Gerdau Long Steel North America says that the steel it produced to create anchor rods for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge that have since failed met the specifications "it was ordered to."
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U.S. manufacturers have on aggregate stopped offshoring U.S. jobs as domestic production gets comparatively cheaper than producing goods abroad, according to Harry Moser, president and founder of the Reshoring Initiative.
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The owner of a Denver steel supply company has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Export-Import Bank of some $11.2 million.
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Metalico Inc. is buying two privately held scrapyards in Pennsylvania and New York.
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Aluminum rolled products producer Novelis Inc. and a subsidiary of steelmaker ThyssenKrupp AG have signed a cooperation agreement to produce aluminum parts for the automotive industry.
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Sandmeyer Steel Co. sales manager William Laverty Jr. has retired from the stainless steel and nickel alloy plate processor.
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Flat-rolled processor Roadrunner Steel LLC has slated a $7-million expansion that will augment its slitting capacity with new leveling equipment.
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Due to a reporting error, a story posted to AMM's website May 20 incorrectly stated the cost of shipping crude oil by rail and pipeline.
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Worthington Industries Inc. has promoted two executives who will lead its engineered cabs and Worthington Armstrong Venture (Wave) business segments starting July 1.
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Oklahoma-based metal distributors, fabricators, processors and downstream users reached by AMM largely said their facilities escaped damage and employees were safe and accounted for following a devastating tornado that killed at least two dozen people May 20.
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General Motors Co. plans to build a $44.5-million logistics optimization center at its Grand River assembly plant in Lansing, Mich.
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The United States’ vast supply of natural gas makes exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) a "clear choice," according to America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA).
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McNichols Co., a distributor of perforated and expanded metals, has opened its 18th service center.
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Having received no comments in an anti-dumping duty administrative review of imports of ball bearings from Germany from May 1 to Sept. 14, 2011, the U.S. Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a final ruling that the product was not sold at less than fair value.
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President Obama has signed an executive order aimed at speeding up major infrastructure projects by modernizing permitting practices and regulations, a move some say could benefit suppliers of steel and other structural components by getting backlogged construction projects off the ground sooner.
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While there are plenty of crude oil pipeline projects on the books, the permitting environment is a difficult one, keeping many of those projects from moving forward, according to a refinery operations executive.