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The domestic steel production industry has benefited from trade cases filed over the past several years, with investigations into hot-rolled, cold-rolled and corrosion-resistant products getting favorable rulings that have helped to boost domestic prices and keep imports from dominating the market as they did in 2014.

ArcelorMittal has found a buyer for its idled Georgetown Steelworks facility in South Carolina. European steel company Liberty House Group will purchase the operation, which houses a 600,000-ton-per-year electric arc furnace and a 750,000-ton rod mill.

U.S. Steel Corp. has completed a controlled restart of its Midwest Plant in Portage, Ind., following a brief shutdown due to an accidental release of hexavalent chromium into the Burns Waterway that connects to Lake Michigan.

More service centers are opting for cloud-based ERP systems. Changes in technology are arriving at a rapid rate. Some of those changes merely improve life in a small way, making gains on the margins.

Optimism over the improving economy, growing steel demand and pro-business administration was widespread at the Platts Steel Markets North America Conference last month in Chicago.

The ferrous scrap market is emerging from the devastating 2015-16 industry downturn thanks to rising steel demand, trade cases and new production facilities.

f the Trump administration relaxes fuel-efficiency and emissions standards, will it help the American auto industry or slow the pace of innovation?

A.M. Castle & Co., Oak Brook, Ill., has reached an agreement with its primary debt holders on a comprehensive financial restructuring that will allow the specialty metals distributor to execute its long-term strategy to return to profitability.

Worthington Industries, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, earned $35.9 million on net sales of $703.4 million in its fiscal third quarter. It reported an 8.7 percent increase in its net sales and a 20.5 percent increase in its net earnings compared to the same period in the prior fiscal year.

Flack Global Metals and Kenwood Painted Metals have completed a merger of the two companies. The Cleveland-based Flack, formerly known as Flack Steel, partners with other service centers to supply flat-rolled steel.