Steel Strip

An interesting video featuring Nucor employees and CEO Dan DiMicco. As well as illustrating the impact of the recent collapse in steel sales it’s a good background film to the activities an electric arc based steelmaking plant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYyrqSmhals

I am grateful to Maria at American Metal Market , for sending me a link to an article that appeared in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, written by David Bear. If you ever get to the UK David, I would gladly be your guide to Ironbridge for the day.
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IRONBRIDGE GORGE, Shropshire, England — It may be [...]

Came across this interesting blog, and a posting about the impact of steel prices on the cost of a new car.
A few years ago, high(ish) gas prices and fierce competition had Detroit automakers talking about the "perfect storm" that the domestic industry was facing. Fast forward to 2008 and the entire auto industry, not [...]

For some time now we have provided a steel search using the Swicki engine provided by Eurekster.
We have noticed that the link has not been working for a few days now, and came across the following article, an extract from which appears below :-
Social/wiki search engine provider Eurekster has been down for the past [...]

This article appears on today’s Telegraph.co.uk site
If America and Japan are in recession, nobody told the steel market. The price of hot-rolled coil used in cars and trucks has risen 40pc since Christmas, reaching a record $1,003 a tonne last week. Billet steel used in buildings has doubled to $965 since the credit crunch began [...]

Some time ago, I designed and implemented a couple of web forms, to make it easier for people to send enquiries directly from the browser without having to start up their email client.
For a long time it worked well, until that is the spam bots found it. Now I can receive dozens of “enquiries” a [...]

I have disabled the Swicki search, which is stopping the site loading. Will re-enable it when the Swicki problem is sorted.
All Working again re-enabled

With all thats happening in the Steel Industry, I forgot about Uncle Bill’s new Vista operating system. I must confess to not being overly excited, and share the views of Peter over at Blog.V7
It makes me tired even mentioning the name “Vista”. I know nothing about it, and hopefully won’t have to know anything [...]

Regular visitors have probably noticed that to the left of our articles are two search engine scripts. These are optimised for steel related searches. Regular readers, will be aware that we have been experimenting for some time now with the Eurekster powered Swicki, and more recently with the Google powered community search.
The problem with general [...]

I, along with many others I am sure, have found that searching for steel related information on the web can be very frustrating. This is particularly the case when attempting to find details of specifications, or technical processes. One common problem is that specifications particularly comprise invariably of a sequence of “apparently” random letters and [...]