Source: Metal Center News Many of today’s service center companies began as secondary steel houses, taking material the mills couldn’t sell as prime and finding another use for it. But that pathway is closing, as the current non-prime steel market is a smaller segment that bears little resemblance to the days of old. There remains,…

Import Permits Increase At End of 2019, According to Commerce Department’s SIMA Data Source: AISI 1-minute read According to U.S. Commerce Department data, the U.S.  steel import applications for the month of December 2019 totaled 2,308,000 net tons (NT). This is 12.3% more tons than the 2,055,000 recorded in November, as well as 47.8% more than…