Service Center News

Curtis Steel Orders Multiple Lines from Red Bud

Red Bud Industries has received an order for a Precision Blanking Line, Low Passline Slitter and a Packaging Line from Curtis Steel Company LLC, a Houston-based service center. Curtis Steel is one of the largest flat-rolled steel distributors in Texas.
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Featured Video

A Nucor Steel Testimonial: Hyster ReachStacker in Metal Handling

Nucor Steel Arkansas used straddle cranes to load steel coils onto railcars. Using a Hyster® ReachStacker instead, they now safely load up to 10 times as many cars per day.

Op-Ed

Turmoil is Temporary, Sound Operations Last

For this issue, I talked to a handful of experts on a subject that may be very meaningful to a lot of you – though only once.
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Featured Product

Accurate Hardness Testing From Starrett

The L.S. Starrett Co., a global manufacturer of precision measuring tools and gauges, metrology systems and more, offers digital Rockwell/ Superficial Rockwell Benchtop Hardness Testers with fully automated load/unload procedures and capable of providing highly accurate readings.
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Business Topics

Goldman Sachs: Tariffs to Slow GDP Growth in 2025

A year of moderate growth is projected by the people at Goldman Sachs, a year that slows as it draws to a close. The financial giant predicts GDP of 2.4 percent overall in 2025, drawing back to 2.1 by December.
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Products

New Product News-Testing & Measurement

Products by: The L.S. Starrett Co | Exact Metrology | Verisurf | InspecVision | LK Metrology (Photo by) | Sandvik | FARO Technologies
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Chapel Steel Implements INVEX

Chapel Steel Corp, a steel plate distributor and processor based in Lower Gwynedd, Pa., has implemented INVEX, the metal service center enterprise ERP software from Invera. Chapel Steel is one of the nation’s largest distributors of carbon, high strength, abrasion resistant and specialty grades of steel plate.
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