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Producers

Steel Manufacturers’ Association Presentation

February 27, 2008

Below is a presentation I made recently at the SMA Board of Directors meeting in Florida. It deals with the issue of organizational size in today’s steel industry and asks some questions (more than providing any answers) about how the structure of steel organizations will change as they deal with much different dimensions of scale [...]

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ThyssenKrupp’s ‘clean’ Blast Furnace in Duisburg

February 11, 2008

And on the subject of ThyssenKrupp, here’s a short video from DeutscheWelle (in English) describing the start up of the ThyssenKrupp number 8 blast furnace in Duisburg.

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ThyssenKrupp company profile, October 2007

February 5, 2008

In the continuing NoS series of gathering profiles of some of the largest steel companies in the world, here’s an extremely comprehensive profile of ThyssenKrupp Steel made by the company itself in October of 2007. There are details of the parent corporation, but much more detailed information about the two main steelmaking groups, carbon & [...]

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BlueScope buys SteelScape back – and a whole lot more

December 19, 2007

Here’s BlueScope’s detailed description of the what they just acquired from Ternium. Follow the link below and download the original from the link on the righthand side of the page.

BlueScopeSteelpresentation20Dec07[1].pdf

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Baosteel profile

December 14, 2007

On the subject of China, here’s a nice profile of Baosteel both in China and America.

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ArcelorMittal and Borusan hot strip mill venture in Turkey

October 23, 2007

Don’t miss the announcement about the ArcelorMittal and Borusan venture in Turkey. I am not surprised ArcelorMittal had something bigger planned in Turkey since they didn’t get what they wanted with Erdemir.

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Nucor information files

October 18, 2007

If you want to go to look for some of Nucor’s information files yourself you can go to this page. Some of the more useful files are available right here:
The Q4 2006 Investor Presentation describing the company at that point: Q4_2006 Investor Presentation.ppt
Tons & sales data 1998 through Q3 2007: Sales, Earnings, Tons data
Tons [...]

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