Nippon Steel & Sumikin Bussan Americas Inc. and Pacesetter have formed a partnership to build a new service center facility in Houston. The joint venture will strengthen both companies’ positions in the Southwestern United States, the companies claim.
Read More Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., has acquired Corporacion POK, S.A. de C.V., a Guadalajara, Mexico-based precision casting company. POK produces complex castings and precision machined products used by the oil and gas, mining and sugar processing industries.
Read More Noted pipe and tube analyst from Preston Pipe & Tube Report predicted the energy business will enjoy small growth in 2019, one of a handful of notable predictions made during CRU’s North American Steel 2018 Conference in Chicago last month.
Read More Steel Dynamics will build a new 3-million ton capacity flat-roll steel mill in the Southwestern United States. The board of directors for the Fort Wayne, Ind.-based company authorized the move this week.
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During a panel discussion at the recently concluded FABTECH show in Atlanta, economist Chris Kuehl and Reshoring Institute Executive Director Rosemary Coates spent much of their hour on stage talking about the state of manufacturing and the most pressing issue facing manufacturers – filling openings on the shop floor and elsewhere in the operation.
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Norfolk Iron & Metal Co., Norfolk, Neb, will acquire O’Neal Flat Rolled Metals LLC. O’Neal is a wholly-owned subsidiary of O'Neal Industries Inc., Birmingham, Ala. The transaction is expected to close by Dec. 31.
Read More Greg Keown has been promoted to president of A.J. Oster, effective Dec. 3. Oster is the processing and distribution arm of Global Brass and Copper, Schaumburg, Ill.
Read More A.M. Castle & Co., Oak Brook, Ill., reported net sales of $148.1 million in the third quarter, a 20.2 percent increase compared with the same period in 2017. Net sales dipped 1.5 percent from the prior quarter.
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Harbor Pipe & Steel beat the rush out to Riverside, and that’s made quite a difference.
Read More Olympic Steel Inc., Cleveland, reported net sales of $457 million in the third quarter, a 38 percent increase from the same quarter in 2017 and the highest quarterly sales figure in company history.
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