Steelonthenet.com RSS Feed Digesthttp://app.feed.informer.com/digest3/RY69JBCHYU.html Respective post owners and feed distributors http://feed.informer.com/ [Steelonthenet.com] Birmingham, Alabama, USA; 14 May 2008 - Precision Grinding, Inc. is pleased to announce the installation of a new Yama Seiki CNC Vertical Machining Center. According to Andrew Cunningham, President of Precision Grinding, 'This machine allows us to expand our current CNC machining production capacity and add new customers'. Precision Grinding expanded its Steel Fabrication department last fall with a new 10 ton overhead crane and an additional 5,000 square feet. Precision Grinding has added several new skilled labor positions with the expanded production capacities in machining and fabrication [more...] http://www.precisiongrinding.com/newscenterMay2008.htm Steelonthenet.com RSS http://www.precisiongrinding.com/newscenterMay2008.htm? Wed, 14 May 2008 08:40 GMT [Steelonthenet.com] Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; 13 May 2008 - Nucor Corporation announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire 50% of Duferdofin-Nucor S.r.l., a new joint venture being created with Duferco S.A. for the production of beams in Italy and the distribution of beams in Europe and North Africa. The joint venture will include the Duferco Group's Italian long product production assets and associated distribution companies [more...] http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=107115&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1144448 Steelonthenet.com RSS http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=107115&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1144448? Tue, 13 May 2008 07:16 GMT [Steelonthenet.com] Helsinki, Finland; 09 Apr 2008 - Rautaruukki is to increase the capacity of its service centre in St Petersburg to meet growing demand in Russia. A new cut-to-length line will start up at the Parnas service centre in northern St Petersburg in autumn 2008. The existing machinery at Parnas has already been modernised. A comprehensive range of cut-to-length and slitting services will enable us in particular to serve light engineering customers who relocate their production to the St Petersburg area. Relocating the production of roofing products, which has been fairly minor, to Finland will free up the space Ruukki needs to grow service centre operations in St Petersburg [more ...] http://rautaruukki.ir.hex.fi/ir/hex.ir.generator.servlet.IRServlet?common:company=RTR&common:format=HTML&common:template=210&common:language=EN&NewsShow:news_id=309554&NewsShow:date=9-4-2008 Steelonthenet.com RSS http://rautaruukki.ir.hex.fi/ir/hex.ir.generator.servlet.IRServlet?common:company=RTR&common:format=HTML&common:template=210&common:language=EN&NewsShow:news_id=309554&NewsShow:date=9-4-2008? Mon, 12 May 2008 12:54 GMT [Steelonthenet.com] Canton Ohio, USA; 30 Apr 2008 - The Timken Company (NYSE: TKR) today reported sales of $1.43 billion during the first quarter of 2008, an increase of 12 percent over the same period a year ago. The increase was driven by strong sales in global industrial markets, as the company benefited from its capacity-expansion initiatives, as well as the favorable impact of pricing, surcharges and currency. First-quarter income from continuing operations was [more...] http://www.timken.com/en-us/about/NewsRoom/Stories/Pages/TimkenReportsRecordFirst-QuarterResults.aspx Steelonthenet.com RSS http://www.timken.com/en-us/about/NewsRoom/Stories/Pages/TimkenReportsRecordFirst-QuarterResults.aspx? Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:15 GMT [Steelonthenet.com] Brussels, Belgium; 21 Apr 2008 - World crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI) was 119.5 million metric tons (mmt) in March. This is 5.8% higher than the same month last year. Total world crude steel production was 340.7 mmt in the first three months of 2008, a 5.6% increase over the first quarter of 2007. In the first three months of 2008, China produced 124.9 mmt of crude steel [more...] http://www.worldsteel.org/?action=newsdetail&id=240 Steelonthenet.com RSS http://www.worldsteel.org/?action=newsdetail&id=240? Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:53 GMT [Steelonthenet.com] Munich-Pullach, Germany; 21 April 2008 - The Linde Group announced today the launch of LINSPRAY® Arcmix, a new solution from its LINSPRAY® program, to enable manufacturers to drastically enhance the quality and safety of thermal spraying. LINSPRAY® Arcmix reduces dust and fume levels, lowers oxide content, and achieves a deposit efficiency of more than 90 percent [more...] http://www.linde.com/international/web/linde/like35lindecom.nsf/0/DEC49017FE296332C125742F0046B04F Steelonthenet.com RSS http://www.linde.com/international/web/linde/like35lindecom.nsf/0/DEC49017FE296332C125742F0046B04F? Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:41 GMT [Steelonthenet.com] Brussels, Belgium; 18 Apr 2008 - The Executive Committee and Board of the International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI) reaffirmed the industry's commitment to safety and health at a Board meeting in St Petersburg. IISI has launched a new industry-wide position paper on safety and health and produced a guidance book on the IISI safety and health principles. Speaking at the Board meeting, IISI Secretary General Ian Christmas said [more...] http://www.worldsteel.org/index.php?action=newsdetail&id=239 Steelonthenet.com RSS http://www.worldsteel.org/index.php?action=newsdetail&id=239? 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