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As widely reported today some 600 protestors have descended upon the Drax powerstation. I wonder how many of them are either responsible for paying the electric bills at home, or work in industries for whom the cost of power is becoming a burden on profitability?
Drax is a key part of the UK power infrastructure and [...]

For a couple of months now we have been managing, tweaking and refining our steel search swicki, (the search box to the left of this posting).
The principal behind a swicki, is that the users refine the results to improve relevancy. Whilst in the early days the swicki gives the same general type of results that [...]

Following on from their recent announcement of price increases on structural steels, Corus Group said today that it will increase its fourth quarter flat-rolled steel prices in Europe by 5 to 7 percent.With higher energy costs and strong demand for steel, Corus said that prices for hot-rolled, cold-rolled, galvanised and organic coated steel in mainland [...]

As described in his inimitable style over at the Tinbasher, Mr. Woodster has finally got his grubby, metal bashing mitts on his visa! In early September subject to his luggage being clear of bomb making paraphernalia, black pudding, and welding equipment he will be heading west to the land of the free. Quite what [...]

The Moscow Times reported today the Evraz and Corus had met for talks

The country’s largest steel producer, Evraz, has held talks with British-Dutch steelmaker Corus about a possible tie-up but has no plans to buy it in the near future, Evraz’s chairman said in an interview published Wednesday.
Alexander Frolov told Vedomosti that Evraz was keen [...]

AK Steel announced that it would increase transaction prices for all stainless hot- rolled sheet and strip and continuous mill plate products by about 10% with effect from September 3. The company said that its published stainless product surcharges remain in effect. The increase in price would be accomplished through a five percentage point reduction [...]

I have been aware of the Steeluniversity.org site for some time now. They describe the site as follows:-
steeluniversity.org provides FREE award-winning e-learning resources on steel technologies for students and steel industry supply chain employees.
I have searched for and reviewed many sites during the years since I started Steelstrip Resources and seen them all the good, [...]

AS nearly 130 years of rail track production ends in Workington on Friday, Corus Rail steel mill opened its doors to the media for the last time yesterday.
A lack of space, and the call to centralise operations in Scunthorpe, has led to the closure of the site.
Customers – such as Network Rail – require tracks [...]

Bluescope Steel is suggesting relatively few of its job losses will come at the New Zealand Steel plant at Glenbrook, south of Auckland, but is giving no numbers.
The company announced plans to cut 250 jobs from its Australian and New Zealand operations in June, and confirmed them on Monday when revealing a 66% fall in [...]

I spotted this article over at Stamping out a Living. It’s good news for North America and Canada in particular, thet GM are to make the Camaro near Toronto.
General Motors Corp. will make the new Chevrolet Camaro at one of its plants in Oshawa, just east of Toronto, the company said Monday.
GM executives, senior government [...]