Steel Strip

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 [...]

In view of the recent spate of price increase announcements, its interesting to see MEPS latest take on the situation.

EU steel prices showed a remarkably strong recovery over the first half of this year. Despite the Summer slowdown, the latest figures are now in some cases above the peak values reached in the previous cycle.
This [...]

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel has urged union workers to keep an open mind over a proposed merger with Brazilian steelmaker Companhia Siderurgica Nacional. CSN has proposed to merge its North American assets with Wheeling-Pittsburgh in exchange for ownership of just under half of the new company. The Brazilian company would also invest $225 [...]

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