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  • Trump says he would block US Steel sale

    02/01/2024 8:26:02 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 19 replies
    The Hill ^ | 02/01/2024 | LAUREN SFORZA
    Former President Trump vowed to block the sale of U.S. Steel to the Japanese Nippon Steel Corporation if he secures a second term in the White House. “I would block it, I think it’s a horrible thing. When Japan buys U.S. Steel, I would block it instantaneously. Absolutely,” he told reporters Wednesday after meeting with the Teamsters union in Washington. Trump did not say how he planned to block the deal between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel. “We saved the steel industry. Now, U.S. Steel is being bought by Japan. So terrible. But yeah, we want to bring jobs back...
  • Steel Production Down to Lowest in 15 Years in Germany

    01/26/2024 3:55:39 PM PST · by davikkm · 13 replies
    The incredible part is that there is no plan to fix any of this. The German government has effectively said “this is just going to keep getting worse and worse.” It’s a complete deindustrialization project, the explanation being that the leaders of Germany don’t like the leaders of Russia.
  • How Hamas fooled gullible donors to fund its billion-dollar terror tunnel system

    01/14/2024 11:10:46 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 11 replies
    owl ^ | January 14, 2024
    Hamas “used more than 6,000 tons of concrete and 1,800 tons of metal to build hundreds of miles of underground infrastructure.” While the existence of what Israelis refer to as the “Gaza Metro,” which Palestinians call “Lower Gaza,” has been well known about for years, with Hamas leaders even boasting about it, the question remains how, in one of the world’s most poverty-stricken territories, which relies largely on aid from U.N. agencies, regional and Western powers, the terror group had the financial means to invest in such an intricate and expansive terror tunnel network. As the governing body in Gaza,...
  • Fetterman says he’ll work to block ‘absolutely outrageous’ US Steel sale

    12/18/2023 1:00:33 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 64 replies
    The Hill ^ | 12/18/2023 | LAUREN SFORZA
    Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) vowed Monday to work to block the $14.9 billion sale of U.S. Steel Corp. to Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel, which he described as an “outrageous” move. The deal was announced Monday, prompting the stock prices of U.S. Steel to jump up 25 percent. Fetterman criticized the sale, saying in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the move was “wrong for workers and wrong for Pennsylvania.”
  • US Steel announces plans to lay off hundreds at southern Illinois mill

    11/29/2023 3:16:58 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 27 replies
    Fox business ^ | 11/29/2023 | Pilar Arias
    U.S. Steel issued layoff warnings to 1,000 employees of its Granite City, Illinois, mill this week, saying they expect to fire 60% of them due to indefinite idling of iron and steelmaking operations at the facility. The warnings rocked the local community, which will be severely impacted by the move. "You’ve got these small businesses that depend on that income to come in, and these businesses want these people to come in and spend their money," Edith Arnold, a woman whose relative has worked at the mill for more than 30 years, told local KTVI. "You shut them down, what...
  • 'Will the Last Steelworker Out of Pittsburgh Please Turn Out the Light?'

    09/19/2023 9:36:35 AM PDT · by canucksvt · 27 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | 09/19/2023 | Salena Zito
    CLAIRTON, Pennsylvania -- The first steel plant located here along the Monongahela River just over 20 miles south of Pittsburgh was built in 1901. By 1903, the borough of Clairton formed around the industry, and by 1904, U.S. Steel acquired the plant from St. Clair Steel, and the industrial base of America began its reign here in Western Pennsylvania.
  • To Build Ships That Break Ice, the U.S. Must Relearn to Cut Steel

    09/17/2023 11:04:02 PM PDT · by Reverend Wright · 45 replies
    Wall Street Journal via MSN ^ | Sept 17, 2023 | William Malden
    PASCAGOULA, Miss.—A $13.3 billion program to safeguard American interests in the Arctic has run aground on an old industrial challenge: cutting and shaping thick, hardened steel. U.S. officials are racing to procure new polar icebreakers because one of only two that the Coast Guard now sails has reached the end of its life, and the one assigned to the Arctic is out of service for maintenance every winter. Delivery of the first new icebreaker has slipped to 2028 from 2024 as designers, engineers and welders grapple with something the U.S. hasn’t done in decades: reliably shape hardened steel that is...
  • Semiconductor Lasers Hit Steel-Slicing Levels

    07/17/2023 12:46:47 PM PDT · by algore · 17 replies
    Semiconductor lasers, unlike bulky gas lasers and fiber lasers, are tiny, energy efficient, and highly controllable. The one thing they can’t do is deliver their competitor’s steel-slicing brightness. In results reported last week in Nature, a group of researchers at Kyoto University, in Japan, led by IEEE Fellow Susumu Noda, has taken a big step in overcoming the limitations of semiconductor laser brightness by changing the structure of photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers (PCSELs). A photonic crystal is composed of a semiconductor sheet punched through with regular, nanometer-scale air-filled holes. Photonic crystal lasers are attractive candidates for high-brightness lasers, but until now...
  • The Bicycle Thread - July 2023

    07/01/2023 7:07:52 AM PDT · by Berlin_Freeper · 27 replies
    July 1, 2023 | The Bicycle Thread
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  • Former Major Midwest City Is Now a Semi-Abandoned Wasteland

    04/30/2023 10:02:28 AM PDT · by sodpoodle · 49 replies
    Wander Wisdom ^ | 4/30/2023 | Kathleen Joyce
    Not even an hour's drive southeast from the center of Chicago sits Gary, Indiana, a semi-apocalyptic shell of its former self. Originally founded in 1906, Gary, Indiana wasn't always the way it is now. During the middle of the 20th century, Gary was a booming steel town and a hub for the United States Steel Corporation. Domestic steel workers and newly-arrived immigrants flocked to the city for its economic opportunity, and during the 50's and 60's, Gary was thriving enough to rival other major industrial hubs like Chicago and Detroit. So how did this once-thriving center of industry collapse into...
  • Steel was being used in Europe 2900 years ago

    03/08/2023 10:20:53 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 11 replies
    ScienceDaily ^ | February 28, 2023 | Materials provided by University of Freiburg
    Summary: Researchers have discovered what they believe is the earliest use of steel in Europe -- on Iberian stone pillars from the Final Bronze Age... Using geochemicalanalyses, the researchers were able to prove that stone stelae on the Iberian peninsula that date back to the Final Bronze Age feature complex engravings that could only have been done using tempered steel. This was backed up by metallographic analyses of an iron chisel from the same period and region... that showed the necessary carbon content to be proper steel. The result was also confirmed experimentally by undertaking trials with chisels made of...
  • US company gets $120 million boost to make ‘green steel’

    01/27/2023 10:31:22 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 27 replies
    Associated Press ^ | January 27, 2023 | Ed Davey
    The manufacture of “green steel” moved one step closer to reality Friday as Massachusetts-based Boston Metal announced a $120 million investment from the world’s second-largest steelmaker, ArcelorMittal. Boston Metal will use the injection of funds to expand production at a pilot plant in Woburn, near Boston, and help launch commercial production in Brazil. The company uses renewable electricity to convert iron ore into steel. Steel is one of the world’s dirtiest heavy industries. Three-quarters of world production uses a traditional method that burns through train loads of coal to heat the furnaces and drive the reaction that releases pure iron...
  • Blastr invest €4bn in new green steel production facility

    01/24/2023 6:56:03 AM PST · by ConservativeDude · 8 replies
    Innovation News Network ^ | January 5, 2023
    A new green steel plant with an integrated hydrogen production facility is set to be established in Inkoo, Finland. In order to ramp up production, Blastr Green Steel (Blastr) has entered into a Letter of Intent with Fortum, a Nordic energy company. This provides Blastr with exclusive rights to use an existing industrial site in Inkoo.
  • British Steel's Chinese owner seeks huge government aid package

    10/01/2022 4:44:43 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 11 replies
    SKY News ^ | October 1, 2022 | By Mark Kleinman
    The owners of Britain's second-biggest steel producer are seeking an urgent package of financial support from taxpayers amid renewed fears for thousands of industrial jobs in the north of England. Sky News has learnt that Jingye Group, which bought British Steel out of insolvency in 2020, has told ministers that the company's two blast furnaces are unlikely to be viable without government aid. British Steel, which is headquartered in Scunthorpe, north Lincolnshire, employs about 4,000 people, with thousands more jobs in its supply chain dependent upon the company. The request from Jingye poses a major headache for Jacob Rees-Mogg, the...
  • North Portland steel foundry to close after 121 years, lay off 225 workers

    08/25/2022 12:52:55 PM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 24 replies
    https://www.bendbulletin.com ^ | 8/25/2022 | y ELLIOT NJUS The Oregonian
    Columbia Steel Casting Co., a Portland metal casting company that dates back more than a century, told state regulators Wednesday it plans to shut down operations at its North Portland foundry and lay off most of its workforce. The company said 225 employees, many represented by three different unions, would be laid off beginning in October. The filing indicated the closure would be permanent, though a letter to employees indicated that the company was in talks with “various companies” about buying the foundry and maintaining operations.
  • Ford’s Mustang Mach-E Profit Wiped Out by Commodity Costs

    06/16/2022 10:08:39 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 42 replies
    Yahoo Finance ^ | June 15, 2022 | Keith Naughton
    Ford Motor Co.’s hot-selling Mustang Mach-E electric SUV and other plug-in models are being rendered unprofitable by rising raw material costs. “We actually had a positive bottom line profit when we launched the Mach-E, commodity costs have wiped that out,” Chief Financial Officer John Lawler said Wednesday at the Deutsche Bank Global Automotive Conference, referring to 2020, when the vehicle went on sale. “You’re going to see pressure on the bottom line when we launch our EVs, they’re not going to be positive.”
  • 45th Congressional Race Between Steel and Chen Contentious

    04/26/2022 5:50:42 PM PDT · by T Ruth · 1 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | April 26, 2022 | Drew Van Voorhis
    In the newly redrawn 45th congressional district, Republican incumbent Michelle Steel is facing up against Democrat real estate firm owner and Navy reserve officer Jay Chen. Steel will be running for her second term in Congress, where she last beat incumbent Rep. Harley Rouda in the 48th district in 2020. Previously, she was an Orange County Supervisor since 2015 and also served on the California State Board of Equalization. Chen has also served on elected boards before, where he was a member of the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District from 2007 to 2015 and is currently a trustee of...
  • Graphene in concrete is already changing the rules of the game in construction

    04/10/2022 8:43:22 PM PDT · by upchuck · 61 replies
    YouTube ^ | Dec 15, 2021
    Engineers have long dreamed of creating a wonderful material that can revolutionize construction. In 2004, their dream came true. British scientists first created Graphene—one of the forms of nanocarbon that is only 0.3 nanometers thick—a million times thinner than a human hair, but it can withstand colossal loads! Many immediately predicted a great future for it, and a little later, scientists were given the Nobel Prize. However, mass adoption did not happen. And only now, after 15 years, the first real opportunities have appeared to use the material of the future in commercial projects. Super-substance is made from ordinary graphite,...
  • Billion dollar loot claimed in Massachusetts

    03/30/2006 4:45:01 PM PST · by Tailgunner Joe · 10 replies · 559+ views
    Mineweb ^ | 30-MAR-06 | John Helmer
    MOSCOW (Mineweb.com) -- It is almost forty years since those fine falsettos, the Bee Gees, put their pop classic, “Massachusetts”, on the top of the charts. They had no idea that their lyrics might become the alleged plot of a scheme by a trio of Ukrainian metal men to steal hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from the processing of manganese ore, and the sale of ferromanganese, ferrosilicon, and silicomanganese to steelmakers around the world. “And the lights all went out in Massachusetts,” sang Robin and Barry Gibb. “They brought me back to see my way with you.” On...
  • The Bicycle Thread - January 2022

    01/05/2022 2:01:37 AM PST · by Berlin_Freeper · 23 replies
    January 5, 2022 | The Bicycle Thread
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