Amalgamated Metal Corporation (AMC) stays in the mix by trading, distributing, and manufacturing metals, building products, and chemicals for a wide range of industrial applications. Its metals include steel and non-ferrous metals (aluminum and tin), and its chemicals operation distributes paints and coatings, specialty, and food chemicals. AMC operates through about 25 subsidiary companies in 12 countries. In North America, it operates subsidiary Amalgamet, which trades non-ferrous metals, chemicals, and essential oils. Amalgamated Metal Corporation Industrial segment is its largest, accounting for not quite two-thirds of its business. Almost half of AMC's sales are in the UK and continental Europe.

Luvata smelts and refines copper mainly for markets in Europe and the US. Products include copper rods, bars, sheets, plates, strips, wire, and tubes. Its operations include Rolled Products; Air Conditioning/Refrigeration Tubes; and Luvata Heat Transfer Solutions, which makes HVAC components like heat exchangers, air conditioning units, and food storage refrigeration products. Private equity firm Nordic Capital owns Luvata, having bought the company from Outokumpu in 2005. The following year it changed its name to Luvata, which is a Finnish word meaning to promise.

Founded as North Shore Supply in 1955 by William and Lou Beth Nemzin, North Shore Supply Company company started in the salvage and scrap business. During the early years, the Nemzins met the growing needs of the Houston Ship Channel industrial sector by supplying a large range of products, including steel, pipe, fittings, flanges, and valves, as well as industrial tools, equipment, and supplies. It was the Nemzins’ idea to be the “supermarket for industry,” and with grit, determination, and hard work, their vision became a reality.In the early 1980s, the second generation of family entered the business and planted the seeds for further growth. Using the latest in computer technology, exercising fiscal responsibility, and leveraging a workforce dedicated to customer service, the second generation helped to expand North Shore Steel into a premier provider of steel products and services to the Gulf Coast region.

Commercial Metals Company engages in recycling, manufacturing, fabricating, and distributing steel and metal products, as well as providing related materials and services in the United States and internationally. It involves in recycling operations through metal processing plants located in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. Commercial Metals company also operates five steel minimills in Texas, Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas, and Arizona that produce reinforcing bars, angles, flats, rounds, small beams, fence-post sections, and other shapes; a copper tube minimill; and a scrap metal shredder processing facility, as well as purchases and removes rail and other materials from abandoned railroads. In addition, Commercial Metals Company engages in fabrication operations through steel fabrication and processing plants that bend, weld, cut, fabricate, distribute, and place steel; warehouses that sell or rent products for the installation of concrete; plants that produce special sections for floors and support for ceilings and floors; plants, which produce steel fence posts; and plants that treat steel with heat. Additionally, Commercial Metals company purchases semi-finished long and flat steel products from international and domestic sources, and markets and distributes these products in the Americas. Further, it operates rolling mills that produce reinforcing bars, merchant products, and wire rods; and scrap processing facilities that directly support its minimill in Poland and Croatia, as well as manufactures electric arc furnace based steel pipes. Commercial Metals company also markets and distributes steel, copper, and aluminum coils; sheet and tubing; ores; metal concentrates; industrial minerals; ferroalloys; and chemicals. Its customers include steel, nonferrous metals, metal fabrication, chemical, refractory, and transportation businesses. Commercial Metals company was founded in 1915 and is based in Irving, Texas.

UC Resources (TSX-V: UC) is a Canadian exploration, development and production company which has an opportunity-driven acquisition strategy. Its main focus is on production and exploration opportunities in Mexico. However, it will also be active in Canada on a very select basis on exploration projects, which have the potential to add significant shareholder value. The Company’s Canadian exploration program is at the McFauld’s Lake volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (“VMS”) project in the James Bay Lowlands of Ontario. This areas has recently received significant interest by the investment community due to some significant results by Noront Resources (TSXV:NOT). To date, in excess of $9 million has been expended on the project, of which 47 drill holes, totaling nearly 15,000 meters have been drilled on the McFauld’s #1 and #3 occurrences. Some of the highlights of this drill program in past years includes: McF-04-57 18.8 meters of 8.02% Copper and Mc-03-18 discovery hole intersected multiple zones, enriched in Zinc, averaged 4.83% Zn over 25.75 meters (also 0.51% Cu). UC Resources Company currently has an option to earn-in up to 55% undivided interest in the McFauld’s Lake Project.The current exploration program by UC has returned some significant results, including an intersection of 4.35% Zn, 2.69% Cu, 0.35 g/t Au and 6.63 g/t Ag over 19 metres.

Powertech Uranium has traded stainless steel and boilers for something a little more radioactive. Powertech Uranium company, formerly called Powertech Industries, sold off subsidiary Gasmaster Industries -- a maker of stainless steel products, condensing boilers, and water heaters -- in 2005. In 2006 the company acquired Denver Uranium Company, a uranium-exploration firm focused exclusively on the Dewey Burdock deposit in South Dakota. In 2007 Powertech Uranium's uranium holdings covered more than 59,000 acres in the western US.

Yukon-Nevada Gold Corp.Company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange with the symbol YNG and the Frankfurt exchange with the symbol NG6.YNG will continue to develop from its existing 100%-owned properties in the Yukon and Nevada.Presently in the Yukon Territory Yukon-Nevada Gold Company is focussed on bringing its wholly owned Ketza River property back into production from the Manto Gold Zones and permitting is underway. The Ketza River Property includes the Ketza River mine, which, from 1987 to 1990, produced some 3,110 kg (100,033 troy oz) of gold from 340,000 tons of ore. The Company aims to further explore the highly potential Shamrock Zone and Silver Valley, both in the Yukon.Jerritt Canyon is located 50 miles from Elko in northern Nevada. Yukon-Nevada Gold Company is currently focused on modernizing the milling facility and emission control systems. Yukon-Nevada Gold Company is striving to reach a point of renewed profitability accompanied by a significantly reduced environmental impact. Ongoing permitting at Starvation Canyon, Nevada will allow the Company, in the future, to realize an increase in the production of gold ounces at Jerritt Canyon.Yukon-Nevada Gold Company recognizes responsible environmental stewardship as an integral part of our business practices and has recognized environmental management as a corporate priority. We integrate environmental factors into the decision-making process throughout Yukon-Nevada Gold company. Sufficient resources have and will be devoted to environmental protection and remediation to ensure that environmental risks are minimized and that the environment and public welfare are protected during the Company's activities.Recently the Company has embarked on a targeted and aggressive media and investor relations program, which we are confident will help fulfill the Company's obligation to improve investor returns by reporting accurate and up-to-date information in a timely manner.

Lion Industries Corporation Berhad (LICB) was incorporated on 17 May 1924 as Sungei Way Dredging Limited under the Companies Enactment 1917. Subsequently, it changed its name to Sungei Way Dredging Berhad on 15 April 1966 and later to Supreme Corporation on 1 October 1976 and Lion Land Berhad on 21 October 1991. LICB was listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad on 29 December 1973 and adopted its current name on 18 February 2003.LICB is involved in the manufacturing of long steel products, by Amsteel Mills Sdn Bhd (AMSB) and Antara Steel Mills Sdn Bhd (Antara) at three steel mills. AMSB’s plant located in Klang, Selangor produces billets for rolling into steel bars and wire rods while its plant in Banting Selangor, set up in 2001 produces special grade billets for rolling into specialty bars and wire rods for automotive parts, mattress and mechanical springs, turning parts, wire rods, wire ropes and other stringent applications. The third mill operated by Antara in Pasir Gudang, Johor, was acquired in 2002 from Johor Corporation Bhd, and produces billets which are rolled into steel bars and light sections such as angle bars, flat bars and U-channels.The steel bars, wire rods and sections produced by LICB are used in the construction, fabrication and manufacturing industries.Antara also operates a Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI) plant in Labuan using the Midrex Technology from USA. Antara’s HBI is manufactured from high-purity iron ore and is rated as among the world’s best and supplied to steel mills for ironmaking, steelmaking and foundary applications.In the property development sector, LICB is involved in property management and residential development. Some of its projects are Taman Malim Jaya in Melaka, Taman Soga in Batu Pahat and Pelangi Promenade in Klang. Its joint-venture with the Eastern & Oriental Group comprises a mixed integrated development project which includes three blocks of 28-storey serviced apartments, with retail, food and beverage theme outlets located at the site of the former St Mary’s School in Kuala Lumpur.

USS-POSCO Industries (UPI) forms an inseparable bond between United States Steel and POSCO. The joint venture manufactures flat-rolled steel sheets in various forms: cold-rolled steel, galvanized steel, and tinplate. In addition, USS-POSCO churns out iron oxide, which is used to make hard and soft ferrites. Based in Northern California, UPI sells its products in about a dozen states throughout the western US.

Nisshin Steel is a heavyweight in Japan's steel-making industry. Nisshin Steel company manufactures coated, cold- and hot-rolled, stainless, and specialty steel. Processing roofing and siding products are also a small part of its operations. Nisshin Steel has a presence overseas through joint ventures elsewhere in Asia as well as in Africa and Europe. In the US Nisshin Steel operates through subsidiary Wheeling-Nisshin and a supply agreement with North American Stainless. Domestic customers account for more than three-quarters of sales. Nisshin Steel was formed in 1959 with the consolidation of Nichia Steel and Nihon Teppan.

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