-Schuff Steel-Gulf Coast, Inc. is currently fabricating a total of 25,400 tons of structural steel for a refinery plant in Whiting, Indiana, and a refinery complex in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Schuff Steel-Gulf Coast, Inc. is the largest steel fabricator in the Houston area and specializes in both industrial and commercial steel fabrication. Schuff operates three steel [...]

Aleris International, Inc. announced today that it will be permanently closing its Tipton, Indiana specification alloys facility, effective today. As previously announced, production at this facility was idled on March 30, 2008.
Prior to idling production, the facility employed approximately 55 people. Production has been transferred to other Aleris facilities in North America. Aleris will continue [...]

Indalex Inc. is investing $1.2 million to improve material flow at its Elkhart, Indiana aluminum extrusion plant, bringing total investment in Midwest manufacturing operations to more than $26 million this year.
The improvement project at Elkhart, part of the company’s Manufacturing Improvement Strategy, will be completed early in the fourth quarter. Indalex has invested more than [...]

AK Steel said today that members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 8-523 have overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year labor agreement covering about 240 hourly production and maintenance employees at the company’s Ashland, Kentucky coke plant. The new agreement takes effect immediately and runs through October 31, 2011. It replaces an agreement that would have expired [...]

Nucor Corporation announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Harris Steel, Inc., has completed the acquisition of the stock of Ambassador Steel Corporation, based in Auburn, Indiana, for a cash purchase price of approximately $185 million. The transaction includes the shares of Ambassador’s affiliate, Delta Erecting. At closing, Harris Steel also repaid Ambassador’s bank debt of [...]

AK Steel has advised its customers that a $1,040 per ton surcharge will be added to invoices for electrical steel products shipped in September 2008. September 2008 surcharges for the broad range of stainless steel products that AK Steel produces can be found on the company’s web site at www.aksteel.com .
AK Steel’s surcharges are based [...]

AK Steel announced that its board of directors has authorized the company to make an early $75 million contribution to its pension trust fund. The contribution will be made during the third quarter and will reduce the company’s future funding requirements. Following the contribution, AK Steel will have made $834 million in pension fund [...]

Following the close of trading today, AK Steel (NYSE: AKS) will be added to Standard and Poor’s S&P 500 GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard) Steel Sub-Industry index, aligning the company with the very best of America’s most prominent corporations. The S&P 500 is widely considered to be the single best indicator of the U.S. equities [...]