August 2006

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Demand Sparks a Run on Plate
Suppliers of steel plate are cranking out as much product as they can to meet the needs of customers, ranging from manufacturers of heavy equipment to power-generating windmills.

Scrap: From Nuisance to Windfall
Skyrocketing scrap prices have changed service center attitudes, and approaches, to handling waste material.

Mill Second-Quarter Report and Outlook
What Slowdown?
 Strong second-quarter financial results from leading steel and aluminum producers belie widespread reports that the economy is slowing down.

Service Center Second-Quarter Report and Outlook
Another ‘Fantastic’ Quarter
Service center executives were almost giddy about their universally strong results for the second quarter and first half of 2006.

MCN Case Study: Seeger Metals & Plastics Inc.
125 Years and Counting
Seeger Metals & Plastics has roots in Toledo going back 125 years. What’s the secret to its longevity? Hard work, good fortune and the serendipity of birth.

From the Editor's Desk
Metals Results Belie
a slowing Economy
 By Tim Triplett,
Editor-In-Chief

Business Topics
Steel Executives Hedging Bets
on Future of Futures Trading
By Dan Markham, Senior Editor

Service Center News Home Page

  • Mi-Tech Well Positioned to Serve
    New Honda Auto Plant in Indiana
  • Esmark vs. Wheeling-Pitt:
    Service Center Maneuvers to Take Over Mill
  • Kenwal to Build Facility
    Near New SeverCorr Mill
  • Samuel, Son Completes Purchase of Form-Tech
  • Reliance Expands Reach
    with Yarde Purchase
  • McNichols Relocates Service Center in Chicago
  • Monarch Buys Feralloy's Ooperations in Cleveland
  • Acero Prime Expanding in Northern Mexico
  • Briefs

Metal Industry News Home Page

  • Arcelor-Mittal Merger's a Done Deal
  • Nucor Plans New SBQ Mill in the South
  • CXM Goes Shopping Down Under
  • Falconbridge Out of Deal
    with Inco, Phelps Dodge
  • Kaiser Emerges from Chapter 11,
    Expands Heat-Treat Plate Capacity
  • NS Group Broadens
    Tube-Making Capabilities
  • Outokumpu Offers Polished Stainless Hex's
  • Ormet, USW OK Pact
  • Timken Adds Line to Heat-Treat Bar
  • Aleris Acquires Corus Business
  • Alcoa Buys Out Mitsui, YKK
  • Mittal Expands R&D Lab
  • Briefs
  • People

Association News Home Page

  • Report Decries Chines Subsidies,
    Calls for Stronger U.S. Trade Policy
  • MSCI: Service Center Shipments Slow in U.S., Canada
  • CBSA: First-Half Shipments Running
    12.5 Percent Ahead of Last Year
  • AISI: Steel Imports Dip in June,
    But Still Way Ahead of '05
  • IISI: Crude Steel Production
    Tops Last Year's Pace
  • AIIS: Pace of Imports Expected to Slow
  • SSINA: Stainless Consumption, Imports Up Slightly
 

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