Operating margins here approach 20%, four times what Rouge typically gets for raw steel.
It meant going outside to buy raw steel slabs instead of making them.
An adverse macroeconomic environment could lower the demand for industrial products, which will lower the demand for raw steel plates and bars.
Valdiserri nets out his half of the costs and the rest is a profit margin three times what it gets for raw steel sheet.
China has benefited as foreign companies shift manufacturing to take advantage of its cheap workforce, and as a pick up in global growth boosts demand for its products, such as raw steel.
Rising costs for raw materials like steel and plastic are one reason Chrysler and other automakers had a tough year in 2006.
In India, we had launched some contracts around steel but for SMX, we went with the basic raw material of making steel iron ore.
The rest of Rouge's capacity, about 750, 000 tons at the time, was sold as uncoated raw sheet to the steel industry's middlemen.
These are important raw materials for the steel industry, among others, and China restricts their exports on the grounds that they are exhaustible resources.
The rest of Rouge's capacity, about 750, 000 tons at the time, was sold as uncoated raw sheet to the steel industry's middlemen -- service centers and processors.
Cleveland, Robson said, was keen to enlarge the company and continue to expand it to produce steel-making raw materials.
With steel manufacturers already under pressure due to increased raw material prices, it was inevitable that they cut down on production to combat the decline in the steel prices.
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And it means that high oil prices and rising costs for commodities like steel, copper and other raw materials are finally resulting in higher prices for things like machinery, bicycles and coffee-makers the stuff that companies and consumers buy.
The first is that their improving lot has not gone unnoticed by those who sell the raw materials that feed the world's steel mills.
But he also said he believed Iran is facing difficulty purchasing raw materials, particularly carbon fiber and maraging steel, it needs to produce this equipment.
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The company is aggressively trying to adjust the output at many of its steel producing plants as well as raw material resources in order to maintain profitability.
Wuhan Steel agreed and also forecast a decline in steel demand for 2011, saying that profit margins for steel makers could be eroded if raw material and energy costs continue to rise.
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Nucor ( NUE) is the largest U.S. operator of mini-mills, smaller steel facilities that use scrap as their raw material.
At TWB Co. a single laser welds steel sheets of different properties into a single raw sheet that Cadillac can have stamped into a door panel without any of its own welds.
The ministers also prohibited the export to Iran of further materials relevant to the Iranian nuclear and ballistic programmes or to industries controlled by the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), including graphite, raw or semi-finished metals such as aluminium and steel, as well as software for integrating industrial processes.
In her rooms she kept one and then two locked steel trunks, which she filled with everything from raw silk to electric sandwich-makers.
The environmental result is that the value chain sucks ever more raw materials through as fast as possible, swallowing up huge volumes of timber, steel, plastic and energy in the process.
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Steel makers have been forced to take steps to protect themselves against painful raw material cost increases mainly due to surging demand from Asia's tiger economies, including China, to power their growth.
With the financial press slapping recession fears on page one, day after day, is it any wonder that not only raw materials stocks plumb new 1-year lows but capital goods stocks like US Steel sell at one third of year ago high water marks?
Raw rubber is heated and extruded on to the drum, followed by successive layers of steel wires and strips as the tyre takes shape.
The reciprocal here is major users of steel like General Motors plumb new lows, too, but they will benefit from lower raw materials costs going forward.
These raw material inputs are used to make many processed products in a number of primary manufacturing industries, including steel, aluminum and various chemical industries.
Antidumping duties on magnesium, polyvinyl chloride, and hot-rolled steel, for example, enable petitioning U.S. companies that often dominate domestic supply of raw materials to foreclose alternative sources and then thrust higher prices on their U.S. customers.
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