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Ohio Cold Rolling Mill Returns to Operation
The Yorkville, OH, cold rolling mill of Severstal Wheeling, Inc. (Wheeling, WV) resumes operations on December 13 to provide additional cold rolling capacity to Severstal North America. Yorkville, idled since June 2009, will finish sheet steel made at Severstal Sparrows…
Teens Turn Thumbs Down on Manufacturing Career
Despite assertions from manufacturers that they will need a new breed of highly skilled workers in the years ahead and job opportunities will abound for today's youth, U.S. teenagers in large numbers want to wear white collars, not blue, when…
Britain's Lost Engineers
Oxford Intelligence Research (London, England) shows more than half of UK workers with advanced engineering skills have been lost to the industry. 58 per cent of the UK's most highly-trained and experienced engineers are not using their specialist skills at…
ESAB Recognized as Best Partner for Welding and Cutting Systems in Energy Generation
Frost & Sullivan (Palo Alto, CA) presented The 2009 Global Best Partners Welding & Cutting Systems for Energy Generation Award to ESAB (Florence, SC), which has emerged as the leading manufacturer of welding and cutting systems for energy generation industries…
Advanced High-Strength Steel Technologies Featured on Motor Trend Car of the Year
The North American steel industry and the AISI Steel Market Development Institute have a reason to celebrate, as the 2010 Ford Fusion and Fusion hybrid, which feature a number of advanced high-strength steel technologies, were selected as Motor Trend Car…
Toyota Plans Engine and Transmission Manufacturing Facility in India
Automotive major Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota City, Japan) recently announced that it is considering the construction of an engine and transmission production plant in India so the company can use locally manufactured vehicle parts rather than imported ones. Industrial Info…
Alcoa Idles Italian Plants Following EU Ruling
Alcoa Incorporated (Pittsburgh, PA), the world's leading aluminum producer, decided to shut down two plants in Veneto and Sardinia in Italy after a European Commission (EC) ruling directed Alcoa to pay back differential power tariffs that the company has been…
India's CII-Steel Summit Vows to Up Production to 200 Million Tons by 2020
According to recent reports from Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, TX), A Sai Pratap, Indian minister of state for steel, has urged steel producers in the country to play a vital role in reducing energy consumption in the steel-making process…
Lincoln Electric Automation and JITECH Announce Global Partnership
Lincoln Electric Automation (Cleveland, OH) and JITECH Fabrication Technologies Inc. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) recently announced a global product partnership agreement for the development of StruCIMT, a powerful 3D simulation software system. StrucCIM is designed to allow fabricators to quickly simulate…
MAG Completes First Phase Of New China Plant
MAG Industrial Automation Systems (Erlanger, KY) completed the first phase of a new plant in Changchun, China, at the end of November, with production of machine tools and factory automation systems set to begin in February 2010. The new plant,…
Micro Waterjet LLC Announces New Headquarters
Developed in Switzerland, Micro Waterjet LLC now offers contract manufacturing services through the North American Headquarters in Huntersville, NC with plans to sell the WOMAJET® by the end of 2010. Combining abrasive waterjet cutting technology with the precision of a…
U. S. Steel Announces Executive Changes
United States Steel Corporation (Pittsburgh, PA) chairman and chief executive officer John P. Surma recently announced several executive-level leadership changes. Vice president of supply chain and customer service John C. Price elected to retire effective November 30, after 40 years…
