Metals Chips
Staff -- Purchasing, 12/11/2003 2:00:00 AM
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Wolverine Tube is closing its Booneville, Miss., facility that produces industrial copper tube used to make residential and commercial air conditioners because of "lackluster product demand." Wolverine already has started to transition production from the Booneville plant to its Jackson, Tenn.; Shawnee, Okla., and Decatur, Ala., facilities, which "shouldn't negatively impact the fulfillment of customer requirements."
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Ispat Inland Steel Co. of Chicago has launched automotive.ispat.com, a new Web site detailing all the sheet steel products it has available for automotive industry applications. This site offers information on product availability, steel characteristics, such material properties as tensile properties, formability, fatigue properties and weldability, plus typical applications in parts manufacturing.
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Stephan Lacor has been appointed chairman of the stainless steel market development committee of the Specialty Steel Industry of North America, the Washington-based trade association. His job is to spearhead domestic marketing initiatives that develop new markets for stainless steel products. Lacor is a fifteen-year veteran of the stainless steel industry, and is vice president and general manager of Mexinox USA, a wholly owned division of steel trader and processor ThyssenKrupp Mexinox of Bannockburn, Ill.
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Heidtman Steel Products, Toledo, is building its newest processing facility in Cleveland. The 220,000-square-foot facility should be completed enough by January to provide slitting services, and pickling by March. The new Heidtman facility is located on the property of International Steel Group.
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Quanex Corp. of Houston is buying the North Star Steel plant in Monroe, Mich., a mini-mill steel bar producer of special bar quality and engineered steel grades. The 23-year-old facility, with revenues of approximately $175 million, annually can produce more than 500,000 tons of bars in diameters ranging from 0.5 inch to 3.25 inch. The operation will become part of Quanex's Macsteel steel bar division, also based in Michigan.
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Alcoa Mill Products recently opened two aluminum welded tube lines at its Texarkana, Texas, plant. The equipment came with Alcoa's purchase of the former Scottsboro Aluminum rolling mill facility in Alabama. Ann E. Whitty, Texarkana's director of manufacturing, says the two welded tube lines produce products with diameter ranges of 0.5-inch to 2 inches.
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