December 2006

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2006 Service Center
Executive of the Year
Donald R. McNeeley, President and COO,
Chicago Tube & Iron Company
In steel circles, Don McNeeley is considered something of a superman. While working his way up through the ranks to become president and part owner of Chicago Tube & Iron Company, he managed to earn a Ph.D., launch a second career as a university professor, get elected chairman of the industry’s top trade association and, incidentally, run 80 marathons.

SBQ Market Outlook
Will Capacity Additions Rock the Boat?
 While 2007 is shaping up as another good year for special bar quality steel, plans by a few leading mills to increase production raise fears of a supply-demand imbalance in 2008.

Third-Quarter Report and Outlook:
Service Centers
All Eyes on Inventories
Despite concerns over rising inventory levels, metals distributors report strong sales and earnings through the third quarter, and look optimistically toward 2007.

From the Editor's Desk
Year in Review Reveals
Whole New Who's Who
 By Tim Triplett,
Editor-In-Chief

Business Topics
EMMA: Expanding Markets
for Expanded Metals
By Dan Markham, Senior Editor

Service Center News: Home Page

  • Esmark Appears to be Winner
    in Fight for Wheeling-Pitt
  • Copper Executives Predict
    Downturn in '07 Shipments
  • Gibralatar Aquires EMCO
  • Crest Steel Joins Reliance Chain
  • All Metals Expanding
    Facility in South Carolina
  • O'Neal Takes AIM at
    Aerospace Supply Chain
  • Ugine Stainless Going
    To Market as Ugitech
  • Marmon/Keystone to Build
    Service Center in Wisconsin
  • Obituary: William J. Bohnen
  • Briefs

Metal Industry News: Home Page

  • Russian Producer Evraz
    To Acuire Oregon Steel
  • Phelps Dodge Merger
    With Freeport McMoRan
    To Create Copper Giant
  • U.S. Steel to Slow Production in 4Q
  • Nucor Subsidiary Verco
    Completes Acquisition
  • Arcelor, Mittal, Noble to
    Combine Laser Businesses
  • SDI Subsidiary Pulls Out
    Of Iron Nugget Plant
  • Outokumpu Changing
    Tube Lines in Sweden
  • Alco Expands Capacity
    at Morristown Facility
  • Weirton Likely on Block
    as Stichting Stays Put
  • Gerdau Enters Venture
    With Pacific Coast Steel
  • Swiss Steel Becoming
    Schmolz+Bickenbach
  • Timken to Open Aerospace
    Products Center in China
  • Obituary: Philip Haynes
  • Briefs
  • People

Association News: Home Page

  • MSCI Aluminum Panel Hotbuttons:
    Consolidation, China, Substitution
  • MSCI: Steel Inventories
    Peaked in September
  • AISI: September Shipments
    Down from Auguat
  • SSINA: Stainless Import Levels
    Up 18% Through August
  • IISI: China Leads Increase
    in World Steel Production
 

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