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The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating effect on the global economy, and the steel industry has hardly been spared. That was the general theme of the CRU Annual New York Steel Briefing webinar held June 23.
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There is a cynical phrase in politics – and, let’s face it, virtually all phrases are cynical once pols get their grubby paws on them – to never let a good crisis go to waste.
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Metal Center News is closing in on the advertising deadline for the July edition of the magazine, and we wanted to send out a final reminder to our ad base about the opportunity provided in the issue.
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On May 19, marketing expert Steve Miller conducted a webinar sponsored by the International Manufacturing Technology Show organizers. The webinar focused on helping businesses become “uncopyable” – or differentiating themselves from the competition -- coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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I set out this week with a simple objective: find the good news. Surely, buried beneath the discouraging unemployment report, the first-quarter drop in quarterly GDP and the cratering of the oil and gas market, there had to be something positive to hang our hats on.
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Finding the silver lining in the COVID-19 outbreak is not an easy task. Though service centers and processors have rightfully been determined to be essential businesses in most locations, many, if not all, have seen reduced business levels due to shutdowns or slowdowns from producers and customers.
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The nation’s governors' response to the novel coronavirus has been a massive shutdown. The same philosophy has been followed by the North American steel community.
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One of the perils of publishing a monthly magazine is the possibility that what you wrote at deadline will become obsolete by the time anyone reads it.
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One of the bright spots, OK, the only bright spot, of the COVID-19 outbreak has been seeing the response of the manufacturing community to the crisis. Scores of businesses and innovative individuals, many of them in the metals supply chain, have stepped up to respond to our nation’s needs.
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In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, service centers and other businesses in the metals supply chain have typically been labeled as "essential businesses" by state and municipal governments, due to their role in keeping the supply chain of critical metals moving.
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