September 2005

MCN Top 50
Service Center Industry Giants
Metal Center News ranks the largest, most successful service centers in North America.

End-Use Forecast:
Oil Country Tubular Goods
Positive Economics for OCTG
Sustained higher crude oil and natural gas prices lead energy companies to increase drilling activity, creating a strong outlook for oil country tubular goods.

Producer Profile: Southland Tube
New Mill, New Market for Southland
Southland Tube is gambling that its new large-diameter HSS mill—beginning commercial production this month—will find a home in the South despite the tube industry’s overcapacity.

MCN Case Study:
Samuel, Son & Co., Limited
5th Generation, 2nd Century of Success
Observing its sesquicentennial year in business, the Canadian metals giant sees its greatest growth prospects in the United States.

From the Editor's Desk
Hurricane Recovery Promises
Bump in Demand—Eventually
By Tim Triplett,
Editor-In-Chief

Business Topics
'Lean Distributing'
with Flexible IT Resource
By Eric Marcus

Service Center News

• Aggressive Expansion for EMJ
• Heidtman's New Line
  Offers Critical Flatness
• TCI Precision Metals
  Adds Water-Jet Cutting
• Amerinox Expands
  Processing Capabilities
• Toledo Processor to Get
  First SCS Coil Line
• Webcast for Metal Center IT &
• Operations Staffs
• Briefs
• People

Metal Industry News

• Steel Industry Deals with Disaster
• How Will Imports, Exports Be Affected?
• Dofasco to Buy Copperweld Businesses
• ITC to Conduct Sunset
  Reviews on Beams, Pipe
• Mittal Restarts One Furnace,
  Idles Another
• Stelco Finds Buyer for Stelpipe
• CMC Buys Mexican
  Joist Plant from Canam
• Crcible Materials to Upgrade
  Annealing, Heat Treating Facility
• IPSCO Expands Heat-Treat Capacity
• WCI Steel Files
  Reorganization Plan
• Precision Castparts Agrees
  to Acquire Special Metals Corp.
  
• Briefs
• People
• Obituary: William W. Higgins

Association News

• Mexico Hits U.S. Exports with Tariffs
  in Retaliation for Byrd Amendment
• MSCI: Service Center Steel
  Shipments Decline in July
• IISI: World Steel Output Up,
  But Down in U.S., Canada
• SSINA: Stainless Imports
  Up 15% in 1st Half

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