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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-24

Posted on 24, Apr

Your latest weekly twitter updates.

BSSA Regional Forum, 23rd June, EEF Sheffield – Help During the Downturn

Posted on 10, Jun

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Do you think it’d be safe to venture off to the steel city for the following in a couple of weeks? It’s a free seminar in Sheffield that anybody is welcome to attend: How can the BSSA help you during the downturn? Come to our free seminar and find out about opportunities available to BSSA [...]

“Two World Wars and One Great Depression Do-Dah Do-Dah”

Posted on 9, Jan

This credit collapse/meltdown/armageddon is a curious one to fathom. Do you not think? What are you lot seeing and hearing? It seems like any response seems wholly inappropriate. For example, if you acknowledge there’s a squeeze going on but then follow up with how it isn’t affecting you and you’re bucking the trend, you’re a [...]

Scrapping Ships at Harland and Wolff

Posted on 14, Apr

Harland & Wolff Ship Broken for Scrap The linked photoset from this weekend’s Guardian: April 12 2008: Belfast, UK: The MSC Napoli cargo ship lies in a dry dock at Harland and Wolff ship builders as it is dismantled for recycling. The ship was grounded off the English coast after getting into difficulties during bad [...]

The Future According to United States Steel circa 196*

Posted on 4, Apr

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Syd Mead futuristic illustration for United States Steel This is part of an absolutely marvellous flickr set of what United States Steel thought the future might hold. It’s a touch more optimistic than their British counterpart, Corus, who only managed to inspire the dystopia that is Blade Runner with their monstrosity of a steel plant [...]

Spring Steel Available in Small Quantities

Posted on 2, Apr

I always get mightily confuddled by various steel grades and types. Oh, I have the basics from 304 to 316 down pat, but when our Steve at Steel Strip mentioned to me that he’d started selling small quantities of spring steel I had to scurry off to Wikipedia to find out what spring steel actually [...]

Arcelor Mittal: “Is there anything more rewarding than saving a life?”

Posted on 25, Mar

Have you had the pleasure as yet of partaking in the new web tv extravaganza that steel behemoth Arcelor Mittal have put together? If the header is to be believed then it could very well be called Inside Transforming Tomorrow. Not only that but there’s a blog to tickle your fancy as well. It looks [...]