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![Morrison: Long Recovery Still Has Room to Grow]()
At last month’s CRU North American Steel Conference, the principal economist for CRU Group asked, and answered, the question: Is a recession imminent?
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![Lessons Learned in the Army: Develop Leaders Three Levels Down]()
The real strength of an organization is three to four levels from the top. Junior leaders in any organization make an organization great or lead to its eventual downfall.
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![Red Metals Association Launches Ed Program]()
The Copper and Brass Servicenter Association has rolled out CBSA University, an effort to upgrade its educational offerings to its member companies, and non-members.
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![When Behavior-Based Safety Isn’t Enough Why BBS lacks effectiveness and what you can do instead]()
Drawing from personal experience implementing Behavior-Based Safety programs across organizations with thousands of employees, we have identified three key areas where BBS lacks effectiveness.
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![SMA Trade Expert Makes 232 Case at ASD Meeting]()
Trade policy expert Jean Carroll Kemp addressed the concerns of metal distributors head on when she presented an overview of Section 232 last month during the Association of Steel Distributors Regional Meeting in Chicago.
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![Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Write-Offs Done Right]()
Last December’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act allowed many within the metals distribution industry to expense and immediately write off more, including a 100 percent temporary expensing deduction for adding needed equipment, vehicles, or even a new warehouse or shop building.
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![Survey Says Trump’s Policies Will Spur Growth in 2018-19]()
Whatever his reputation is outside industrial America, Donald Trump continues to enjoy high approval ratings from the metals supply chain. That was just one of the obvious takeaways from 2018 Steel and Metals Growth Survey from Headwall Partners LLC, a corporate finance and strategic advisory firm to the metals industry.
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![Opioid Epidemic Takes Toll on Manufacturing Sector]()
Opioid use and misuse is almost certainly the health crisis of our time. Thousands of Americans are addicted to or misusing prescription pain medication and black-market alternatives, resulting in financial and health calamities in communities across the United States.
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A few weeks before Olympic Steel acquired Berlin Metals and JSW Steel Group bought Acero Junction, Vince Pappalardo said the environment was good for metals merger and acquisition activity. Pappalardo is managing director of Brown Gibbons Lang & Company – an investment bank in Chicago.
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Thanks to the just-passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the tax rate for incorporated metal service centers and toll processors will be reduced from its current 35 percent to 21 percent for the 2018 tax year and thereafter.
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