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Retired service center executive Norman E. Gottschalk Jr. passed away Sunday at the age of 73, surrounded by his family. He served as CEO of pipe and tube specialist Marmon/Keystone, Butler, Pa., for 25 years until his retirement in 2014.

A.M. Castle & Co., Oak Brook, Ill., has commenced voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings with the United States Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. As previously announced, the company immediately filed a prepackaged Joint Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization.

Plate and pipe producer JSW Steel will revamp its Baytown, Texas, operation to create what President and CEO John Hritz calls “the plate mill of the future.”

Flat-rolled steel specialist Mill Steel has opened a new facility in Houston. The Grand Rapids, Mich.-based service center will expand its operations and geographic presence with the new 100,000-square-foot facility.

Samuel, Son & Co., Mississauga, Ontario, and Carpenter Technology Corp., Philadelphia, have formed a strategic alliance to provide end-to-end supply chain solutions for the additive manufacturing marketplace.

Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. has selected a site in Toledo, Ohio for the development of its first hot briquetted iron production plant.

Evraz Inc. Canada has acquired the production assets of Western Canada Machining Inc. The company’s Canadian business is a subsidiary of EVRAZ North America. WCM is a high-volume API couplings producer located in Edmonton.

North American service center shipments of steel and aluminum products rebounded in May, gaining against both the previous month and the same month in 2016, according to the latest Metals Activity Report from the Metals Service Center Institute, Rolling Meadows, Ill. For the full year, shipments of all products except Canadian aluminum remain ahead of last year’s pace.

World crude steel production in May totaled 143.3 million tons, a 2.0 percent increase compared with the same month in 2016, the Brussels-based World Steel Association Reports. Year-to-date production of 694.9 million tons was up 4.7 percent from last year.

The Precision Metalforming Association and the National Tooling and Machining Association urged the Trump administration to take a deliberative approach in the Section 232 national security investigation of imports of steel, warning that unilateral steel tariffs or import quotas could have a devastating impact on its member companies.