Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. engages in recycling ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals, and used and salvaged vehicles; and manufacturing finished steel products in the United States and Canada. The company operates through three segments: Metals Recycling Business (MRB), Auto Parts Business (APB), and Steel Manufacturing Business (SMB). The MRB segment involves in the purchase, collection, processing, recycling, sale, and broking of recycled ferrous metals. It processes large pieces of scrap metal into smaller pieces by sorting, shearing, shredding, and torching. This segment’s products include ferrous products, including shredded, sheared, torched and bundled scrap metal, and other purchased scrap metal; and nonferrous scrap metals, including aluminum, copper, stainless steel, nickel, brass, titanium, and high temperature alloys. The APB segment purchases used and salvaged vehicles, and sells used parts from these vehicles through its auto parts stores. As of August 31, 2009, it operated 37 self-service, 16 full-service, and 2 hybrid auto parts stores in the United States and western Canada. The SMB segment engages in the purchase of recycled metal, and processing of the recycled metal and other raw materials into finished steel products. Its product portfolio comprises rebar, coiled rebar, wire rod, merchant bar, and other specialty products. This segment serves steel service centers, construction industry subcontractors, steel fabricators, wire drawers, and farm and wood product suppliers. Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

In Sweden -- and gradually elsewhere too -- SSAB is another word for steel. Svenskt Stal Aktiebolag company has been a niche player in the European steel market, primarily manufacturing steel sheet and plates, but is hoping to grow out of that niche. Operations are carried out via subsidiaries SSAB Strip Products, SSAB Plates, and SSAB North America (steelworks); Plannja (processing); and Tibnor (trading). Founded in 1978, SSAB has grown beyond its Swedish borders with a presence in more than 40 countries worldwide; Sweden still accounts for a quarter of its sales, however. In 2007 Svenskt Stal Aktiebolag company made a big international move when it bought US steelmaker IPSCO (now the North American unit) for $7.7 billion.

Azure Resources explores and develops mineral properties in Pakistan and Botswana. It owns 90% of a copper/gold exploration project located near Pakistan's border with China. Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto jointly owns the Kang-Kokong diamond mine in Botswana and operates the project through subsidiary Tinto Botswana. In 2008 Azure Resources company changed its name from Trivalence Mining.

Peerless Steel Company prides itself as the leading service center in Michigan, specializing in the distribution of the finest quality product. Peerless Steel has a large inventory of carbon, alloy, and tool steels, as well as plate product. Peerless Steel Company has established operations in Troy, Saginaw and Grandville, Michigan. Fast, accurate, and friendly services are provided to customers across North America.In 1995, Peerless Steel Company celebrated its 50th year in business. Peerless Steel has experienced constant growth as it continually gains market share in the metal products industry. This growth trend has accelerated in recent years as a result of customers recognizing Peerless Steel Company's capabilities. Not only will the customer have access to a wide range of grades and sizes, but will also benefit from Peerless's ability to process to exact specifications and still provide next day delivery.

Cream Minerals Ltd. (the "Company" or "Cream") is a mineral exploration company with properties in Canada, Mexico and Sierra Leone, Africa. The Company is working to enhance shareholder value through the acquisition of gold, silver and base metal properties which have the potential to be developed into economic ore bodies. The Company holds six properties, including the Nuevo Milenio Silver Gold project in Nayarit State, Mexico and the recently acquired Blueberry Gold Project in Manitoba, Canada.Creams 100% owned Nuevo Milenio property is a 2560 Ha (Hectare) property hosting a low sulphidation epithermal gold and silver deposit contained within a collapsed caldera. The property has a compliant NI 43-101 Inferred Mineral Resource of 54.6 million ounces silver equivalent contained within 5.09 million tonnes. The average grade is 251 ounces per ton, the cutoff grade is 180 ounces per ton and the vein widths run from 2 metres to 5.1 metres. The resource calculation is based on a ratio of 50:1. While the resource is contained within 600 Ha, there are gold and silver showings over a 5 km length on the property trending from the South East to the North West. Outside of the 600Ha resource area the property has had limited exploration but is highly prospective.

Allegheny Technologies Incorporated produces and sells specialty metals worldwide. Allegheny Technologies High Performance Metals segment offers a range of high performance alloys, including nickel-and cobalt-based alloys and superalloys; titanium and titanium-based alloys; exotic metals, such as zirconium, hafnium, niobium, nickel-titanium, and their related alloys; and other specialty alloys primarily in long product forms, including ingots, billets, bars, shapes and rectangles, rods, wires, seamless tubes, and castings. This segment markets its products directly to end-use customers in the aerospace and defense, oil and gas, chemical process, electrical energy, and medical industries. Allegheny Technologies Flat-Rolled Products segment provides stainless steel, nickel-based alloys and superalloys, titanium and titanium-based alloys, and specialty alloys in various product forms, including plate, sheet, engineered strip, and precision rolled strip products, as well as grain-oriented electrical steel sheet. This segment serves the oil and gas, chemical process, electrical energy, automotive, food equipment and appliances, machine and cutting tools, construction and mining, aerospace and defense, electronics, communication equipment, and computer industries. Allegheny Technologies Engineered Products segment provides tungsten powders, tungsten heavy alloys, tungsten carbide materials, and tungsten carbide cutting tools. It also produces carbon alloy steel impression die forgings, and grey and ductile iron castings, as well as provides precision metals processing services, such as grinding, polishing, blasting, cutting, flattening, and ultrasonic testing. This segment serves various industrial markets, including automotive, oil and gas, chemical process, machine and cutting tools, aerospace, construction and mining, and other markets requiring tools with hardness. Allegheny Technologies was founded in 1960 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Zambia Copper Investments isn't sure what it wants to do, but it knows it likes copper. The company's primary asset had been a 28% stake in copper and cobalt mining company Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), but it sold that investment to another KCM shareholder, Vedanta Resources, in 2008. The following year it spent about $10 million for an 80% stake in African Copper PLC. Copperbelt Development Foundation has a 44% stake in Zambia Copper.

BMG can shear up to 1/2" thick and 12' in length. With its burning equipment, we can burn up to 6" thick in carbon steel and plasma cut stainless and aluminum up to 1-1/2" thick. All other processing capabilities can be subcontracted out reasonable rates to get the job done when you want it.Our MG Apollo cutting machines use computer-aided design to cut your custom shapes. Send us a fax showing your drawing or send us your DXF file to download your part into our extensive library of shapes that can be recalled next time you do that same job. Or, if you don't have a drawing, just bring the part in and we can most likely replicate it using our digitizer system. With 5 heads we are able to cut several pieces at once allowing for quicker turnarounds and competitive pricing. Whether its one piece or 1000 pcs, whether its 11ga stainless steel or 6" thick carbon steel, put BMG to work for you.While BMG does no welding, punching, plate bending or other fabricating processes, we will be happy to outsource your job for you, send material to a fabricator of your choice, or recommend a fabricator from the hundreds of quality fabrication shops that do business with BMG Metals. Please inquire.

Tokyo Rope Mfg. should be considered a high-wire act. Tokyo Rope Mfg.company has been making fiber rope and wire since 1887 and is still walking the line. It also makes steel cord and wire rope used in diverse industries, including mining and the manufacturing of steel radial tires and other belted rubber products. The company's specialty products include guard cables used in construction and cables for suspension bridges. Tokyo Rope also makes metallic fibers and industrial machines, including a multi-wire saw used to cut semiconductor silicon, ceramics, and other hard and delicate matter.

Inmet Mining believes it has a solid base for growth in base metals. The mining company emphasizes base metals such as copper and zinc, though it also produces gold. Inmet is involved in five producing mines: Troilus, a wholly owned gold mine in Quebec; the Çayeli mine in Turkey, which produces copper and zinc concentrates; Ok Tedi, an 18%-owned copper mine in Papua New Guinea; the Spanish Las Cruces copper mine; and Pyhasalmi, a copper and zinc mine in Finland. It also has a Panamanian copper/gold project in development, acquired in 2008 when it bought Petaquilla Copper. In 2010 Inmet entered a joint agreement with Millrock Resources for a 70% interest in San Jose and Dry Mountain copper operations in Arizona.

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