From The Editor

The shipment reports from various trade organizations provided some eye-opening year-over-year changes in the last few days, though the full story behind the numbers is hard to discern.

A colleague sent me an email a few weeks back with the subtle remark, “This does not sound very promising.” His message included a link to a feature story in Bloomberg about the impending crisis facing the Chinese steel industry.

At August's Steel Market Update Steel Summit, SMU chief Michael Cowden assembled a team of automotive experts to discuss the future of electric vehicles. But what about the present?

Though summer is still just in the winding down phase, Metal Center News is already looking ahead to our end-of-year tradition, the Service Center Executive of the Year award. SPS Companies’ Dennis Mullen was the 2023 EoY.

As she compiled a list of recipients to invite to her impending graduation from Alaska’s Sitka High School this spring, Autumn Mayo didn’t just include friends and family. No, she also added a number of corporations she was familiar with, the better to introduce herself to potential future employers. One of those companies was Hypertherm,

Metal Center News is putting the finishing touches on this year’s Top 50 Service Center rankings, the magazine’s annual listing of the biggest service center companies in North America.

In the strange calendar followed here at Metal Center News, the last weeks of July mean we’re turning our attention to September. And, for more than 20 years, September at MCN means Top 50.

Eagle-eyed viewers will have noticed an addition to the cover of this month’s Metal Center News. Well, to be fair, I’m sure most regular-eyed and even Mr. Magoo-eyed viewers have also noticed. It’s not exactly a Where’s Waldo situation.

Any day now, the July issue of Metal Center News will arrive on your doorstep, or office desk as is the more likely scenario. And as this is the seventh month, it will come with the now-common AdQ survey.

For several years, steel and aluminum industry executives have frequently touted the need to revisit nuclear power as a solution to the nation’s energy concerns. That’s only accelerated in the ongoing push for decarbonization.