Steel Strip

It’s not so often I post a human interest story, but I spotted this one in the Scunththorpe Telegraph.
As the fourth generation in a steelmaking family, Donna Jackson was expected to take up a career in the industry - but she was not expected to make history.
For the one-time student at Foxhills School Technology [...]

Trade union IG Metall will be demanding a 7 pct wage increase for about 85,000 workers in the steel and iron industries in three regions in western Germany, a union spokesman said.
Wage bargaining talks are scheduled to start on Aug 23 and the workers affected are in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bremen and Lower Saxony.
Two [...]

Corus Group PLC, the Ango-Dutch steel maker, has announced a 10 pct price rise for its long products effective from Oct 1, 2006.
The group said the price hike was due to strong market demand. Derek Randall, commercial director of Corus’ long products division, said demand across the group’s main markets such as construction, commercial [...]

I picked up this link courtesy of Michael’s blog over at Stamping out a Living.
Nick Sevastian, a mechanical engineer, has written an article on the decline of manufacturing in North America, and their lack of success, particularly in comparison to Japan.
Whilst the article is written from the perspective of a US based engineer, I could [...]