Novelis is investing $9 million in its Oswego, N.Y., plant to increase production of aluminum sheet ingot, the starter stock for the rolling process. The new ingot production will be brought online by next summer.

Samuel Manu-Tech of Mississauga, Ontario is spending $28.5 million to purchase the laser-welded stainless steel tube plant in Elizabethtown, Ky., from Dofasco Tubular Products. To be renamed Associated Tube USA, the plant will come under the new parent's Samuel Tube Group—which also includes Associated Tube Industries in Markham, Ontario, and Tubos Samuel de Mexico in Saltillo, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico.

Steel service center Denman & Davis plans to upgrade steel plate-burning capabilities at its main Clifton, N.J., facility with two new high-definition plasma torches. The company then will repurpose existing torches at other facilities in Albany, N.Y., and Slatersville, R.I. "We're anticipating a production increase of up to 30% with the new torches," says Dan Consiglio, director of operations, "and, more importantly, our capabilities will be better rounded in all three facilities."

Chicago-based metals service center company Central Steel & Wire has ordered a new CSP (central coil processing) line for its Portage, Ind., steel sheet and plate processing plant.