Ferragon processes flat-rolled steel using techniques such as decambering, pickling, leveling, and slitting. Ferragon company is a toll processor, meaning that it processes customers' material for a fee rather than buying material, processing it, and reselling it. Ferragon operates primarily in Ohio and Michigan, but subsidiary FerrouSouth is based in Mississippi. The company's Ferrous Metal Transfer division transports processed steel. Other group companies include Ferrolux Metals, Metalux, and Ferrous Metal Processing. Ferragon president Eduardo Gonzalez founded Ferragon company in 1983.

Formerly focused on advertising, China Natural Resources has shifted its business plan from working on minds to working in mines. China Natural Resources operates through its Wuhu Feishang Mining Development unit, a producer of zinc, copper, gold, silver, and iron. Smelter operator Huludao Zinc Industry Co. is Wuhu's primary customer. Chairman and CEO Li Feilie owns a controlling stake in China Natural Resources, which he gained in the company's 2006 reverse acquisition of his Feishang Mining Holdings, after which it sold its iSense subsidiary (provided advertising, promotion, and PR services to clients in China and Hong Kong). China Natural Resources has since acquired a number of other mining projects, all located in China.

General Nice Hong Kong Group founded in 1992, headquarter of Group is set up in Hong Kong and mainland business operation headquarter is set up in Tianjin China. General Nice Group is principally engaged in resources development and production, logistics and trading. It is the international investment holding enterprise group. After many years of development, General Nice Group has formed two main business chains: one is based on coal mining, coal selecting & washing, coking, coke export, gangue electricity generating facility, chemical by product and railway transportation; another chain is based on iron ore mining, iron ore import. In 2008, the total asset of the group has reached 7 billion HK dollars and revenue is more than 8.8 billion HK dollars. Subsidiaries of Group i.e. Abterra Ltd. (code 199903007C) listed in Singapore andLoudong General Nice Resources (China) Holdings Limited (code 0988) listed in Hong Kong; those are the group’s important oversea financing platforms.At present, General Nice Group has become one of the major international Groups in the field of China’s metallurgical coke and iron ore business; it has adequate financial resources, advanced technology, sophisticated equipment, experienced staff and efficient management. In recent years, the Group has identified long term development strategies for itself and its subsidiaries companies such as General Nice Resources (Hong Kong) Ltd., Suns Group Ltd, Abterra Ltd. and Shanxi Loudong- General Nice Coking and Gas Company Ltd.

RTI International Metals, Inc. manufactures and supplies titanium mill products in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: Titanium Group, Fabrication Group, and Distribution Group. The Titanium Group segment melts, processes, and produces a range of titanium mill products, which are further processed by its customers for use in various commercial aerospace, defense, and industrial and consumer applications. It also produces mill products, including bloom, billet, sheet, and plate, as well as ferro titanium alloys for steel-making customers. The Fabrication Group segment comprises companies that fabricate, machine, and assemble titanium and other specialty metal parts and components. Its products primarily include complex engineered parts and assemblies, and have applications in commercial aerospace, defense, oil and gas, power generation, and chemical process industries, as well as various other industrial and consumer markets. This segment also provides engineered tubulars and extrusions, fabricated and machined components, and sub-assemblies, as well as engineered systems for deepwater oil and gas exploration and production infrastructure. The Distribution Group segment stocks, distributes, finishes, cuts-to-size, and facilitates delivery services of titanium, steel, and other specialty metal products primarily nickel-based specialty alloys. The company was founded in 1950 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

AK Steel Holding Corporation, through its subsidiaries, produces flat-rolled carbon, stainless, and electrical steels, and tubular products primarily in the United States and internationally. It manufactures flat-rolled carbon steels, including coated, cold-rolled, and hot-rolled products; and specialty stainless and electrical steels that are sold in hot band, sheet, and strip forms. AK Steel Holding company also involves in finishing flat-rolled carbon and stainless steel into welded steel tubing, which is used in the automotive, large truck, and construction markets, as well as trades in steel and steel products and other materials in Europe. It sells flat-rolled carbon steel products primarily to automotive manufacturers; and to customers in the infrastructure and manufacturing markets consisting of manufacturers of appliances, electrical transmission, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. AK Steel Holding company also sells its coated, cold rolled, and hot rolled carbon steel products to distributors, service centers, and converters. AK Steel Holding sells its stainless steel products primarily to manufacturers and their suppliers in the automotive industry; manufacturers of food handling, chemical processing, pollution control, and medical and health equipment; and distributors and service centers, as well as electrical steels to manufacturers of power transmission and distribution transformers, and electrical motors and generators. AK Steel Holding company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in West Chester, Ohio.

While Highveld Steel and Vanadium was once one of the world's leading producers of vanadium, now that it's a part of Russian steel producer Evraz, it's concentrating more on its steel assets. Highveld Steel mines its own ore for its steelworks, which produces plate, coil, billets and slabs. Those products go to the construction, shipbuilding, and rail industries, among others. Until the 2008 disposal of most of its vanadium operations, Highveld had gotten about a third of sales from that unit. But since 2006, Highveld Steel company has sold most of its ferro-alloy businesses as well as its 50% stake in South Africa Japan Vanadium and wholly owned subsidiary Vanchem.

Jiangxi Copper Company Limited is China's largest copper producer. The company manufactures about 800,000 tons of copper products annually and contains more than 10 million tons of proved and probable reserves in its mines, which include the Dexing and Yongping pits and the Wushan underground mine. It owns a copper smelter and refinery, and its majority-owned Jiangxi Copper Products subsidiary manufactures copper rods and wires. Other operations include gold and silver production. Jiangxi Copper Company Limited was formed by parent Jiangxi Copper Corporation, which is owned by the Chinese government, in 1997. Jiangxi Copper Corporation owns 48% of Jiangxi Copper Company Limited.

Lihir Gold Limited (LGL) is a major global gold producer with operations in Papua New Guinea (PNG), West Africa and Australia. The company’s head office is located in Port Moresby, PNG, and in 2005 LGL established its global corporate base in Brisbane, Australia.Lihir Gold Limited company is incorporated in PNG, where it operates one of the world’s largest gold mines and processing facilities on Lihir Island in New Ireland province. In June 2008, LGL finalised a merger with Perth-based gold producer Equigold NL. Through the merger, LGL now has operations at Mount Rawdon in Queensland and in Côte d’Ivoire in West Africa. Combined from its three producing operations, LGL has more than 30 million ounces in gold reserves.In 2009 LGL produced 1.12 million ounces of gold, joining an elite group of gold miners producing in excess of 1 million ounces annually. This comprised a record 853,000 ounces from Lihir Island, 150,000 ounces from Bonikro in its first full 12 months of production and 108,000 ounces from Mount Rawdon.LGL is publicly listed, with its shares traded on the Australian, Port Moresby and NASDAQ stock exchanges. Lihir Gold Limited company presently has 2.4 billion shares on issue and a market capitalisation exceeding A$8 billion.

Ever since its founding, Tokyo Steel has continually expanded its product line from basic long steel products, such as small steel sections and bars, to a variety of steel products. In particular, Tokyo Steel has become the country’s number-one producer H-beams. And the Company has been aggressively boosting the proportion of its production devoted to higher value-added products, such as sheet piles, jumbo H-beams, and a variety of flat-steel products (hot coils, pickled and oiled coils, galvanized coils, heavy steel plates, etc.). It closely tailors this well-rounded mix of high-quality, price-competitive products to meet the constantly shifting needs of its clientele, with a view to maximizing profitability. Another distinguishing characteristic of Tokyo Steel is its emphasis on upgrading its production facilities with state-of-the-art technologies, keeping it several steps ahead of both domestic electric arc-furnace steelmakers and most of its overseas competitors.Thanks to timely investments in technological innovation over the years, while maintaining a sound, debt-free financial footing, the Company arguably boasts one of the highest productivity levels in the steel industry worldwide. It unflaggingly seeks more efficient ways to manufacture steel products, improve product quality, and minimize costs. Furthermore, it takes pride in its role in protecting the environment thanks to its role as a recycler of steel scrap, thus emitting only one-fourth of the carbon dioxide per unit of production compared with making steel using iron ore and coal.

Columbia Falls Aluminum's smelting operations produces about 170,000 tons of aluminum annually. Its ingot, sheet, and bar products are sold to aluminum rolling mills and extrusion plants; its customers are located primarily in the US. Swiss natural resources conglomerate Glencore has owned Columbia Falls Aluminum since 1999. Among Glencore's other aluminum operations are Sherwin Alumina and Century Aluminum Company.

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