Steel Strip

A major building project on the site of a former Scottish steelworks is to be delayed - because of increases in the price of steel.
Work was due to start on Ravenscraig Sports Centre in Motherwell early this summer. However, rising costs have forced the development to be redesigned to keep within budget. The delay will [...]

Essar Steel, the Indian steel producer, is to buy American steel firm Esmark, in a $778m (£392m) deal which includes a $110m long-term loan.
Esmark accepted a cash purchase price of $17 per share, a 13.5% premium on Tuesday’s closing share price.
Esmark chief executive James Bouchard said it needed a strategic partner as raw material [...]

Hardness Testing
Hardness testing for steel is based upon applying pressure to the steel surface and measuring the depth of the indentation. The three major measurement systems are :-
The Brinell hardness test consists in indenting the metal surface with a 10-mm-diameter steel ball at a load of 3,000 kg mass (∼29400 N). For [...]

I came across this interesting article in the guardian.co.uk, by Tim Webb and Heather Stewart.  For years I have been of the opinion the successive Governments "free market, at all costs" attitude has been something of a "double edged sword". The expansion of our home based service economy, and the retraction of our manufacturing industry, [...]

   
The remnant of this 19th century blast furnace was once part of the largest steelplant in the world, now slowly being reclaimed by nature. Located in Granville country park in Shropshire.
Picture taken by me

A bit late with this one, not being well up on US politics, but I spotted the link over at stamping out a living.
Anyway, it seems that in the once thriving steel area of Sharon, feelings are running high on the impact Chinese imports have had on the local steel industry.
SHARON, Pa. — In the [...]

Came across the following links, on the Wikipedia site. Books available to read online
 

J. C. Carr and W. Taplin; History of the British Steel Industry Harvard University Press here
Harukiyu Hasegawa; The Steel Industry in Japan: A Comparison with Britain 1996 here
H. Lee Scamehorn; Mill & Mine: The Cf&I in the Twentieth Century [...]

US transaction prices are going through the roof with gains over the last four weeks as high as $US145 per tonne for some products and more substantial hikes planned by the mills for June deliveries. Domestic values have now caught up with average world prices. Although real demand is no more than satisfactory as the [...]

Searching for details of steel specifications on the web can be frustrating. General search engines do a good job of general searches and can return highly relevant results on many subjects. The practice however of naming steel specifications by a sequence of letters and numbers can make it difficult for the searches to return the [...]

Chinese steel mills around Beijing are holding out for subsidies in return for agreeing to shut down or reduce operations during the Olympic Games in August, the head of the China Iron and Steel Association said on Tuesday.
Determined to crown the Games with blue skies, Beijing has already ordered its top polluter, Shougang Steel, as [...]