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US long products imports rebound

February 14, 2008

US long products imports rose in January for the first time since June 2007, based on SIMA US import licenses. As you can see in the spreadsheet below, an increase in rebar and beam import licenses is driving the rebound. Rebar licenses almost tripled in Jan 08 compared to the Dec 07, but are still […]

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US Steel’s Q4 2007 & 2007 full year results

January 30, 2008

As the earnings season continues, the more eagle-eyed of you will also notice that US Steel’s Q4 & annual EBITDA and operating income results have been added to the NOS earnings spreadsheet which you can access here or see in the Steel Dynamics post below. You can see the full US Steel Q4 earnings release […]

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US long products imports continue to decline

January 21, 2008

US import licenses for long products declined from 240,000 short tons in November ’07 to 222,000 short tons in December, based on SIMA data.  This is the lowest level of long products import licenses since we began tracking them in April 07 when they were 358,000 short tons.  As you may have seen from earlier posts, SIMA import […]

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Steel mill emissions map for the US

December 15, 2007

There’s a very useful Google Maps mashup from MapEcos that uses emissions data from the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory (which has been gathering industrial emissions data from industrial facilities since 1988). You will be asked to enter a name and a zip code on the landing page link above. You can do so or just hit skip it […]

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Donora Death Fog, October 26th, 1948

October 26, 2007

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.

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Steel Dynamics Q3 Conference call

October 18, 2007

This is the Steel Dynamics Q3 conference call file.

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