Steel Strip

My good lady dragged me to Turkey last week, as she is thinking of buying a Property there. When I say “dragged”, it did not involve any brutality on her part, as I am always “up” for a holiday.
Anyway, whilst it was less of a holiday than I had hoped, due to meetings, viewings etc. [...]

This tip from our friends at Tinpot Alley
“If you’re dying to know a rather easy way to get rid of all those grubby paw prints you find on all your stainless steel, here’s our little tip from our sister blog, The Tinbasher.
It’s a bit of baby oil and a lint free [...]

Well after a short Easter break in Turkey
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I find myself back and wondering about the strange situation with steel pricing.
Steel prices in Europe are showing declines in March, across the board – a development that could surprise many. Price declines are being seen on all product categories, including plates, which is a strong market. The [...]

So Corus has finally returned a profit. The group, which recently returned to the FTSE 100, posted a pre-tax profit of £559m against a loss of £255m for the previous year. Turnover was up 17pc at £9.33billion helped by strong demand from Asia. It is Corus’ first annual profit since it was formed in 1999 [...]

I left school in June 1969, having had the benefit of an interview with our newly appointed “Careers advisor” (who was in fact the P.E. teacher in his other role, and not the most intellectual member of staff). The interview involved him outlining the options, which basically consisted of starting at the Steelworks or going [...]

Its’ been a strange sort of week. On the steel front it has been quiet, with enquiries few and far between. January and February are normally fairly quiet in manufacturing, but the silence at the moment is a little eerie. Little to report on the newsfront, but it will be interesting to see how the [...]

So, motor car manufacturers have been using the occasion of the Geneva motor show to rail against soaring steel prices. The motor industry both directly and indirectly through the component manufacturers have held the steel industry to ransom for years. The automotive sector represents a very high percentage of the market for steel products, particularly [...]

Following the acceptance of a 70% increase in iron ore prices, by Chinese and Japanese steel producers’s Corus, Thyssen Krupp and Arcelor have agreed the same. This is not encouraging for people who were hoping for a “slowing down” in steel prices during 2005. A combination of customer overstocking, excess hot rolled coil stock and [...]

Well I have finally published my revamped website at http://www.steelstrip.co.uk/ , and whilst checking and verifying links I came across http://www.butlersheetmetal.com/tinbasherblog/. I had heard of Blogs, but never understood what they were and the discovery of the Tinbasher’s blog was a revelation to me. Anyway the net result was that I decided to use this [...]