Before we get too “hoity-toity” about the effects of Chinese industrial expansion on the Chinese and global environment, it’s worth being reminded of events in the not so distant past that affected industrial cities in the West and how we talked about them. [click to continue…]

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EBITDA/Ton

by Tony Taccone on October 25, 2007

in Finance

EBITDA ($/Ton) for the first 9 months of 2007. This was created using fusion charts.  I may update this in the future but I think it probably makes more sense to create a shared spreadsheet to track quarterly results.

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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 EBITDA/Ton

by Tony Taccone on October 19, 2007

in Finance

Looks like Nucor’s EBITDA per ton in 2007 will be similar to the last few years and much higher than it was in any year prior to 2004.  This is the new steel industry!

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Nucor information files

by James Moss on October 18, 2007

in Data,Producers

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 & sales data 1966-2006: Sales, Earnings, Tons data
Historical financials 1966-2006: Historical Data 1966-2006

Downloading any one will allow you to download the others.

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More consolidation in the scrap industry. Here’s a nice overview of the acquisition of Metal Management by Sims. It’s a PDF file which will show up here somehow both to read and for download. Sims-Group-Merger-Presentation-Sep2007.pdf

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