Month: October 2014


Of the 4,922 Ebola related deaths reported by the World Health Organization, all but 27 of the cases have occurred inside of the iron ore rich countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. One of the unnoticed aspects of the Read more…


Historically, American factories have responded quickly and powerfully to threats against our society. After Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt challenged our workers “to overwhelmingly out-produce the enemies, and to provide a crushing superiority of equipment for our soldiers to win Read more…


This works every time….. Some machine screws are difficult to get the threading started and sometimes cross threading occurs which can really mess things up and may cause the need for the hole that the machine screw is threaded into Read more…


Having the correct paperwork is a very important part of the steel rolling business. When customers need something rolled or curved, they can call in or e-mail the information to a bender / roller. This information, which is received most Read more…


Fuel Economy is a term often used when describing how many miles to the gallon a motor vehicle achieves. It’s a big issue now-a-days, and car manufacturers are trying their hardest to travel the farthest on the least amount of Read more…


A state park committee in Logan, Ohio, had a vision of a monumental tube-steel, circular stair way with an intermediate platform for viewing one of their many spectacular waterfalls. They wanted to use self-weathering steel for its aesthetic and sustainable Read more…


Steel plate rolls–whether they have two or three bottom rolls–all have a top roll. The top roll can be sized to roll plate into cylinders or cylinder segments to radii close to the diameter of the top roll.  However, relatively Read more…


As far back as I can remember, I have been intrigued by the lights and sounds of live theater.  Both onstage and off, the environment within a theater captures a great deal of fluid and dynamic motion.  Naturally, we frequently Read more…


Speed.  It seems like everything is about speed.  Be it getting your sandwich “Freaky Fast” or switching to a different  Internet service provider because they have the “Fastest Download Speeds.”  In football there is “no-huddle or hurry-up offense,” and in Read more…

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