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ASA Materials Market Digest
August 12, 2010, Ed Scott, Editor
Excerpt:
"CARBON STEEL PRODUCTION. In the most recent reporting week, production of raw steel by U.S. mills resulted in 1,726,000 net tons, an increase of 0.9% ahead of the preceding week’s output. In the year-ago week output for the comparable period was 1,255,000 tons.
Thus far for the year to date, production of U.S. mills poured 50,064,000 tons at an average operating rate of 70.7% of nameplate capacity. The current production rate compares favorably with the preceding year when production when 31,052,000 tons were produced at an operating rate of 44.6%"
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2008 Case Study
The Right Forklift for Pipe-Valves
Excerpt:
In 2007, Pipe-Valves, Inc. started to put plans in place to expand its business which involved the purchase of a larger 144,000 square ft building. Pipe-Valves, Inc. approached HY-TEK, a local Combilift dealer for their assistance with specifying material handling equipment to address three key requirements:
- The ability to store their entire pipe stock indoors thus protecting it from the weather.
- Better accessibility to their A, B and C product items.
- The ability to handle 21 foot pipe in their staging area.
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