April 2006
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Automotive
Outlook:
Big Three See the
Light
GM, Ford and DaimlerChrysler are finally retrenching in an effort to stem
the loss of market share to New Domestics like Toyota, Honda and Nissan.
What are the implications for automotive metals suppliers?
Business
Systems:
Scheduling
and Costing for Processing Profits
As service centers take on more value-added processing, their operations
are becoming considerably more complex. Software vendors offer a variety
of products to help manage processing for maximum profitability.
Legislative
Landscape:
Increasing Pressure
on Trade
With the Doha Round of trade talks under way and mid-term elections at
year’s end, U.S. steel industry executives and trade associations
are clamoring for congressional action on Chinese currency manipulation.
MCN
Case
Study: Farmer’s Copper
Red
Metals Resiliency
Farmer’s Copper has prospered through disasters both economic and
natural to become one of the country’s largest distributors of copper
and brass.
From
the Editor's Desk
Is
Your IT System an Asset or a Liability?
By Tim Triplett,
Editor-In-Chief
Business
Topics
Metals
demand to Stay Strong
in 'Industrial Sector Decade'
By the staff of Metal Center News
Service Center News
- ThyssenKrupp Expands in Asia, U.S.
- Worthington Sales, Earnings Decline
- Precision Strip Acquires Flat Rock
- Steel
Warehouse PIcks Chattanooga
for Temper Mill Cut-to-Length Line - IMSA Purchases Two Slitting Lines
- Berlin Metals Adds Slitting Capacity
- Metals
USA Reports
Positive Results in '05 - Reliance Acquisition of EMJ Completed
- Copper
and Brass Sales
Acquires C-S Metals - Titan
to Construct
Steel Processing Facility - Briefs
Metal Industry News
- Mittal
Executives Stump
for Arcelor Takeover - Mott
Takes Over as Stelco
Emerges from Bankruptcy - ITC
Extends Antidumping
Orders on Brass Sheet - Oregon
Steel, Bredero Shaw
To Build Pipe Coating Facility - Nucor
Buys Connecticut Steel,
Enters Venture to Produce Steel Framing - Chapter
11 Charges Contribute
to '05 Loss for Kaiser Aluminum - International
Wire to Acquire
Phelps Dodge Conductors - Alcoa Plans Smelter in Trinidad and Tobago
- Novamerican
Profits Decline
In First Quarter - Steel
Technologies Sells
Custom Steel to American Railcar - Briefs
- People
Association News
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