Nearby, the Seattle Central Library (1000 Fourth Avenue) is an astonishing glass and steel construction by Rem Koolhaas.
It sells hot- and cold-rolled carbon steel to construction companies, steel distributors and service centers and automotive and industrial machinery producers.
The conglomerate was already a major producer of structural steel for construction, forming beams out of melted scrap.
Still in its original location at 400 Oxford Street it was the first building in the country to use a steel frame construction.
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Hennessy also likes Tokyo Tekko, which makes electric furnaces and structural steel for the construction industry.
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As most readers doubtless know, H beams are the standard unit of steel used in construction.
He believes we can meet worldwide housing demand AND constrain carbon emissions by replacing steel and concrete construction with wood construction, that can even be applied to skyscrapers.
Hyundai Steel was already a major producer of steel beams and such for construction, forming them out of melted scrap steel.
Urbanization could not have occurred as rapidly without mass steel production enabling skyscraper construction.
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Between them those three miners account for about 70% of the iron ore imported by China, which has been both a prolific producer and consumer of steel during its hectic construction boom of the past 20 years.
"Once Kia announced they were opening we've sold mostly steel-toed shoes for construction workers, " he said.
The rise in housing starts since the market bottomed last year "means more demand for construction equipment and steel and lumber and other materials that we haul, " Mr. Tennant said.
Construction on the steel, fiberglass and concrete structure was completed in fits and starts, as Father Zawadzki, a priest at a nearby church, sought donations to keep the project going.
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Now China is seen as an opportunity, largely because the things that China needs steel, capital equipment, construction machinery and so on are, as it happens, just the sort of stuff that Japanese companies are good at making.
The company's customers are primarily in the automotive, construction, chemical and steel service center industries.
It also does big business there in machinery, cars, steel, railways, mining, construction and banking.
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Revenue and earnings were hammered by the recession, as usage of steel by automakers and in the construction industry plummeted, and competition from China increased.
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With borrowing cheap and loans easy to come by, investment has flowed blindly into industries, such as construction, cement and steel, which must have long since passed the point of diminishing returns.
That is reflected in share prices: over the past year, the worst performing sectors, from the bottom up, have been securities firms, shipping, construction, paper, steel, mining, warehousing, airlines, oil companies and banks.
About a third of the highway construction jobs would be directly linked to the construction sites -- including on-site workers like Baxter, and off-site workers who manufacture construction materials such as steel and concrete.
Despite these improved results, new construction activity remains weak and steel prices are on the rise.
Fears for the construction sector, and hence steel demand, prompted a significant drop in iron ore prices during October.
Based in the southern Brazilian city of Prto Alegre, Gerdau is Brazil's largest producer of long steel (which is used primarily in construction).
As the Asian crisis continues to bite, demand for steel will plummet following that for cars and construction.
Following the global economic recession in 2008, European countries have been grappling with weakness in industrial and construction activities, which are major steel demand drivers.
It makes steel bars which reinforce cement used in the construction industry - no doubt the downturn in building projects hasn't helped the company's fortunes.
In 1960, as a young mechanical engineer, Valdiserri was hired on at National Steel's Great Lakes division as midnight shift construction engineer on the blast furnace.
After establishing its expertise as a global provider of logistics services involving vehicle shipments, the company has reached into other industries: steel, machinery, heavy chemicals, energy, construction and consumer goods.
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Long carbon steel refers to tubular steel and steel rods, which are used almost completely for the construction of buildings and bridges.
He subsequently created and acquired several metallic construction firms between 1971 and 1988, including steel pipe manufacturer Metallor and Nord Metal, a manufacturer of wire mesh.
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