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The Metal Casting Few weeks after witnessing record profits, steel producers are facing the heat of global economic melt down with cancellation of orders, cuts in production, and layoffs. The present credit crisis and global economic slowdown have affected customers in top three key markets for steel industry — construction, automobiles and industrial equipment. In North America, badly hit construction market consumes about 40 percent of steel, while 20 percent of demand comes automakers and another 20 percent from industrial equipment makers – both hardly hit by current economic turmoil. "The downturn has been dramatic, both in the speed and the magnitude," said Christopher Plummer, managing director of Metal Strategies Inc., a consulting firm in West Chester, Pa. "It's quite concerning and alarming.", as quoted by Associated Press.
 

Twin Nahant silversmiths make it a family affair
NAHANT - A jewelry lover by nature, it seems only natural that Heather Goodwin should fall into a career as a silversmith with her twin sister Kerry Alice Collins.
( Jan 30, 2011 - 09:12 ), Jan 30 09:12pm

Egypt casting a shadow over markets
LONDON FTSE 100 CLOSE 5,881.37 -83.71
( Jan 28, 2011 - 04:09 ), Jan 28 04:09pm

Petal to the Metal
What are you driving in this movie? Paul Walker: It's a spread of stuff. Basically, we are interviewing cars for jobs. They all have their casting call, if you will. We have our eyes on a handful of some and we are putting them through their paces. There is a bunch of cars that get some screen time.
( Jan 27, 2011 - 06:16 ), UnderGroundOnline

Radical radiators
Radiators, once the ugly ducklings of the home and usually ignored unless they didn't work, have undergone a transformation.
( Jan 27, 2011 - 03:23 ), Jan 27 03:23am

Acra Cast in Bay City looks to 2011 for expansion opportunities from recent investments
On a white board in Richard B. Singer's Bay City office is a list of business goals for this year. Some, such as expanding his metal casting and foundry operation, are lofty. Others only require some paint and a bit of elbow grease.
( Jan 24, 2011 - 05:47 ), Jan 24 05:47am

Quality jobs created: minister
Southern Ontario is experiencing a stunning recovery from what's been described as the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s, Canada's minister of state for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario told a gathering at a Thorold sand metal casting factory on Wednesday.
( Jan 20, 2011 - 12:10 ), Jan 20 12:10pm

James Webb Space Telescope's Beryllium Mirrors
by Staff Writers Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 19, 2011 There are heavy metal videos, and now there's a "Not so heavy metal video."
( Jan 18, 2011 - 05:25 ), Jan 18 05:25pm

New machine helps RD Castings win back work lost to China
A 180,000 investment in new machinery has helped die-casting firm RD Castings win back a major contract lost to China.
( Jan 05, 2011 - 09:32 ), Eastern Daily Press

Four Saudis fined in metal firm trading scam
Scam raised SR56.63m through market manipulation, traders fined SR100,000
( Jan 05, 2011 - 01:54 ), Jan 05 01:54am

MP warns on vandalism to signposts at roadsides

, The government should immediately put in place mechanisms to control scrap metal business because a



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