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Essar Steel Algoma Reports Fiscal 3rd Quarter Results

11 February 2011 - Essar Steel Algoma reported a net loss of $194.9 million on sales of $436.6 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2010.

AK Steel Announces Carbon Steel Price Increase

11 February 2011 - AK Steel announces plans to increase current spot market base prices for all carbon flat-rolled steel products.

Tenova Core Contracted for Material Handling System

10 February 2011 - Tenova Core receives additional contract from Armstrong World Industries to provide a complete material handling feed system for the new 12.5-MVA submerged arc furnace at Armstrong’s new Millwood, W.Va., facility.

Carpenter Technology Announces Columbium Surcharge

10 February 2011 - Carpenter Technology will implement a columbium (Cb / Nb) surcharge effective with shipments beginning March 1, 2011.

SKF Appoints President for Newly Formed North America Region

10 February 2011 - SKF announces the appointment of Poul Jeppesen as President North America, with an overall responsibility for Canada, Mexico and the United States.

Harvey Industries Completes Acquisition of R.E. Phelon Company

09 February 2011 - Harvey Industries Die-Casting, LLC has acquired substantially all the assets of the die-casting operations of R.E. Phelon Company, Inc. located in Aiken, S.C.

Northwest Pipe Tubular Products Group to Upgrade Houston Mill

09 February 2011 - Northwest Pipe Co. announced plans to expand its Houston, Texas, mill in response to customer demands for greater product offering.

Cliffs Announces Promotions to Support Global Reorganization

09 February 2011 - Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. has announced a number of global commercial, operating and administrative management promotions in support of the company's previously announced global reorganization.

Rio Tinto to Further Expand Concentrate Capacity at Iron Ore Company of Canada

09 February 2011 - Rio Tinto has given the go-ahead to an additional US$277 million investment in the next phase of a project that will ultimately raise the Iron Ore Company of Canada's concentrate production capacity by 40% to 26 million tonnes per year. 

Horsehead to Explore Potential for New, Sustainable Zinc Plant

08 February 2011 - Horsehead Holding Corp. has completed a preliminary feasibility study to construct a 150,000 ton per year zinc plant based on state-of-the-art “green” technology.

November Steel Shipments Down 1.2% from October

08 February 2011 - U.S. steel mills shipped 6,549,025 net tons for the month of November 2010, a 1.2% decrease from the 6,629,195 net tons shipped in October 2010, and a 20.7% increase from the 5,424,077 net tons shipped in November 2009, according to the latest report from AISI.

AISI Welcomes ThyssenKrupp Steel USA as New Member

08 February 2011 - The AISI Board of Directors welcomed ThyssenKrupp Steel USA as a producer member during its quarterly meeting held February 3 in Washington, D.C.

Commerce to Issue AD, CVD Orders on Drill Pipe, Drill Collars from China

08 February 2011 - The U.S. ITC has determined that a U.S. industry is threatened with material injury due to imports of drill pipe and drill collars from China that the U.S. Department of Commerce has determined are subsidized and sold in the United States at less than fair value.

Essar Steel Algoma Resumes Ironmaking Operations

08 February 2011 - Essar Steel Algoma has restarted its No. 7 Blast Furnace, and is expecting that it will return to normal operating levels in the next few days.

USITC to Conduct Full Sunset Reviews on CTL Steel Plate from Five Countries

07 February 2011 - The U.S. ITC has voted to conduct full five- year "sunset" reviews on countervailing duty orders on cut-to-length carbon steel plate from India, Indonesia, Italy, and Korea, and antidumping duty orders on cut-to-length carbon steel plate from India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, and Korea.

U. S. Steel Announces Management Changes in North America, Europe

04 February 2011 - United States Steel announced several management changes at its North American and European operations, including the appointment of Malisa J. Sommers to the position Managing Director – Transportation and President of Transtar, Inc., U. S. Steel's transportation subsidiary.

Northwest Pipe to Expand Atchison Tubular Facility

03 February 2011 - Northwest Pipe Co. announced plans to expand its Atchison, Kan., mill facility. The expansion will increase the facility’s production capacity by more than 50%, improve productivity and enable the Group to produce product up to 0.375 inch wall.

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