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Carpenter Completes Sale of Ceramics Businesses

02 April 2008 - Carpenter Technology completes the sale of its ceramics businesses—Certech and Carpenter Advanced Ceramics—to U.K.-based Morgan Crucible plc.

AK Steel to Increase Stainless Steel Prices

02 April 2008 - AK Steel announces transaction price increases for stainless steel sheet, strip, and continuous mill plate products in the 200, 300 and 400 series, as well as duplex grades.

EPA Honors ArcelorMittal USA for Significantly Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

02 April 2008 - ArcelorMittal USA is among a unique group being honored by the EPA for its accomplishments in 2007 in reducing greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency.

Cleveland-Cliffs Announces Convertibility of Preferred Stock

01 April 2008 - Cleveland-Cliffs fulfils the trading price condition for the conversion right of its 3.25% redeemable cumulative convertible perpetual preferred stock, with the result that preferred stock may be surrendered for conversion at any time during the fiscal second quarter ending June 30, 2008.

U. S. Steel Names General Manager of Business Planning

01 April 2008 - United States Steel announces the appointment of Deborah A. Grabe to the position of General Manager—Business Planning.

U. S. Steel Presents 2007 Outstanding Supplier Awards

01 April 2008 - United States Steel recognizes seven North American-based suppliers based on factors including safety, quality, cost, customer service, and productivity.

Esmark Settles Lawsuit with Metal Management

01 April 2008 - Esmark confirms settlement of litigation between its wholly owned subsidiaries, Esmark Steel Service Group and Wheeling Pittsburgh-Steel and Metal Management, Inc.

Wheeling-Pittsburgh to Close Allenport Facility

01 April 2008 - Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel announces plans to close its Allenport facility and idle two of the three galvanizing lines located at its Martins Ferry location.

Steelworkers Call for Government Support at Former Trenton Works

31 March 2008 - Members of the United Steelworkers are campaigning to convince the Nova Scotia government to remove Ernst and Young as the trustee for the bankrupt Trenton Works.

Carpenter Acquires UltraFine Powder Technology

31 March 2008 - Carpenter Technology’s Carpenter Powdered Products subsidiary acquires the assets and business of UltraFine Powder Technology, a private company in Woonsocket, R.I.

U. S. Steel Canada Appoints General Counsel, Manager of Government and Public Affairs

28 March 2008 - U. S. Steel Canada announces the appointment of Thomas Ferns as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, as well as the appointment of Trevor Harris as Manager—Government and Public Affairs.

Steelworkers will ‘Keep the Door Open’ for Dofasco Employees

28 March 2008 - The United Steelworkers says it is stepping back from the process it initiated with ArcelorMittal Dofasco due to insufficient support from employees.

Steel Dynamics to Offer $300 Million in Notes

28 March 2008 - Steel Dynamics announces plans to sell approximately $300 million in aggregate principal amount of debt securities in a transaction that would be exempt from the Securities Act of 1933, but would be subject to market and other conditions.

ArcelorMittal Confirms Proposed Sale of Sparrows Point

27 March 2008 - ArcelorMittal confirms the Court-appointed divestiture trustee has entered into an agreement to sell ArcelorMittal's Sparrows Point steel mill.

NSA Honors Tube City IMS Operations for Safety Performance

27 March 2008 - Several Tube City IMS sites receive a total of 35 Safety and Industry Best Practices awards from the National Slag Association in recognition of superior performance as measured against OSHA recordable injury rates.

Commerce Initiates Antidumping Duty Investigation of All-Thread Rod from China

27 March 2008 - The U.S. Department of Commerce will initiate an antidumping duty investigation of threaded steel (all-thread) rod from P.R. China.

ArcelorMittal Announces Closure of Lachine Wire Mill in Montreal

27 March 2008 - ArcelorMittal announces that its Long Carbon North America–Wire Group will close down its Lachine wire mill in Montreal on June 30.

CMC Reports 2nd Quarter Results

26 March 2008 - Commercial Metals reports net earnings of $39.8 million on net sales of $2.3 billion for the quarter, and net earnings of $108.9 million on net sales of $4.4 billion for the six months ended February 29, 2008.

January Stainless and Specialty Imports Hanging Below Year-Earlier Figures

26 March 2008 - Total stainless steel imports reach 61,607 tons through the end of January, a 14.5% decrease compared to January 2007, according to the latest report from the Specialty Steel Industry of North America. Total specialty steel imports decreased 2.8% over the same period.

Steel Imports Dip 8% in February

26 March 2008 - The U.S. imported a total of 2,458,000 net tons of steel in February 2008, including 1,905,000 net tons of finished steel, according to the latest report from the American Iron and Steel Institute.

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