At the SteelOrbis Fall'11 Conference&65th IREPAS Meeting held in St.Petersburg on September 25-27,we found the opportunity to meet Ugur Dalbeler,the General Manager of Turkey-based Colakoglu Metalurji and IREPAS chairman and we discussed ...
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Are yew pining for profits? Spruce up your trading and let the fir fly. The futures industry has always had something of a hate-hate relationship with forest products. Contracts on plywood and oriented strand board have bitten the sawdust ...
Tags: market view, lumber
Illinois is trying to persuade Caterpillar Inc. (CAT), the world’s largest construction and mining- equipment maker, that its home state is the best location to build a factory that will employ more than 1, 000 people. “We have ...
In this edition of my column I would like to put lumber into the spotlight. A commodity like oil is a good indicator of the state of the economy, but perhaps the price developments of random length lumber futures can give us also a clue as ...
Tags: industry trends, lumber, economic upturn
John Foster began his steel industry career at J&L Steel,where he became acquainted with the full range of steel products,from flat rolled to pipe to longs.He later worked at CF&I Steel,serving as General Manager of the bar,rod,wire and ...
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