Those folks who like to crush beer cans against their foreheads owe a lot to Logan Aluminum. Formed in 1983, Logan manufactures aluminum sheet that is used primarily by the beverage industry. A joint-venture of ARCO Aluminum (60%) and Novelis (40%), Logan Aluminum consists of one production facility that also manufactures products for makers of building products and rigid containers as well as for the automotive industry. Its technology includes ingot casting, hot and cold rolling, and finishing. Logan also operates an aluminum recycling facility that opened in 2008. ARCO Aluminum is a part of energy giant BP, and Novelis is owned by Indian aluminum producer Hindalco.

The kind of powders produced by H.C. Starck have nothing to do with ski slopes or Miami Vice busts. H.C. Starck (the US unit of German-based H.C. Starck GmnH, dba H. C. Starck Group) manufactures metal powders, thermal spray powders, metal products, and specialty chemicals. Its powders go into everything from concrete to sporting goods, from pigments and plastics to medical and dental supplies. Starck also makes electroconductive polymers and colloidal silica for the electronics industry. H. C. Starck Group has more than a dozen plants located in Europe, North America, and Asia. It is owned by private investors Advent International and The Carlyle Group.

Golden Star is a mid-tier gold mining company over a quarter-century in age and total historical production of over two million ounces of gold. Golden Star Resources, Ltd. has two operating mines situated along the prolific Ashanti Gold Belt in Ghana, West Africa. Production in 2009 totaled 409,902 ounces of gold from these two mines. Our growth strategy is the result of our exploration and expansion activities at both Bogoso/Prestea and Wassa/HBB. Our Bogoso sulfide and oxide processing plants are working in tandem to enable us to achieve our 2010 operating guidance. The CIL plant at Wassa is processing ore from the Wassa pits in addition to high grade ore from the HBB satellite mines. In addition to operational growth, the Company has consistently grown through exploration and corporate development activities. Lastly, Golden Star has a long-term commitment to sustainability with particular emphasis on health, education and the environment.

Synalloy Corporation, through its subsidiaries, primarily manufactures and sells pipes and piping systems in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Metals and Specialty Chemicals. The Metals segment manufactures pipe and piping systems from stainless steel and other alloys for the chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, mining, power generation, waste water treatment, liquid natural gas, brewery, food processing, petroleum, pharmaceutical, and other industries. The Specialty Chemicals segment produces specialty chemicals, and pigments and dyes for the carpet, chemical, paper, metals, mining, agricultural, fiber, paint, textile, automotive, petroleum, cosmetics, mattress, furniture, janitorial, and other industries. Synalloy Corporation sells its metal products through outside sales employees, manufacturers’ representatives, and authorized stocking distributors, as well as markets directly to engineering firms, construction companies, and project owners. It markets its specialty chemicals directly to various industries through outside sales employees and manufacturers' representatives. Synalloy Corporation company was formerly known as Blackman Uhler Industries, Inc. and changed its name to Synalloy Corporation in July 1967. Synalloy Corporation was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Empire Resources, Inc. engages in the purchase, sale, and distribution of semi-finished aluminum and steel products in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Its semi-finished aluminum products include aluminum sheet, plate and foil, rod, bar and wire, and extruded and cast products. The company serves various industries, such as distribution, transportation, automobile, housing, appliances, and packaging. Empire Resources, Inc. sells its products through its own marketing and sales personnel, as well as through independent sales agents. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Johnstown Wire Technologies, Inc.(JWT) headquartered in Johnstown, PA and originally a division of Bethlehem Steel Corp., is the largest producer of value added carbon and alloy wire in North America. JWT Company focuses on high-margin segments where metallurgical quality is a differentiating factor. The company operates from a single 638,000 square foot facility in Johnstown, PA and employs 260 people, of which 210 are represented by the USWA.JWT produces a wide variety of steel wire products made from carbon and alloy wire rod and hot rolled bar. The company's manufacturing processes include acid cleaning and coating, wire drawing, plating, and annealing.Its customers are primarily in the transportation and construction industry segments, but it supplies product for a variety of other industries including machinery, capital goods, energy/electrical power, and consumer products.

Oxbow's Koch is bullish on coke. The diversified firm's Oxbow Carbon unit markets and distributes coke, coal, petroleum, and carbon products and other commodities to power producers, refineries, and industrial manufacturers. Oxbow is the world's top marketer of petroleum coke, which is used in power generation, cement kilns, sugar mills. and aluminum manufacturing. The company also trades gypsum, bauxite, and clinker. Oxbow also owns a highly productive coal mine which produces 6.5 million tons of coal annually. Oxbow is controlled by William Koch, an America's Cup winner who founded Oxbow in 1983 after being ousted from the family business (Koch Industries) by brothers Charles and David.

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.

Resource Finance & Investment Ltd. (RFI) is engaged in the business of acquiring, exploring and developing natural resource properties. RFI primarily invests in controlled natural resource exploration entities that have the potential to add significant value with the expenditure of early to mid stage capital. The company's focus is on industrial or value-added specialty minerals and selective base metal projects. Resource Finance & Investment Ltd.Company is domiciled in Bermuda. The Company's registered office is in Hamilton Bermuda with administration offices located in Geneva Switzerland and Portland, Oregon. RFI has substantial ownership interests in two entities, one of which is Industrial Minerals Corporation Ltd quoted on the Australian Securities Exchange (IDM.ASX) and a 100% ownership of Dynamex Corporation Inc.

Nippon Denko company is the largest producer of ferromanganese in Japan, accounting for approximately 50% of that country's annual production. Besides ferroalloys, the diversified company also produces industrial chemicals (soda ash and boron and chromium chemicals), new materials (lithium-ion battery materials, zirconium oxide), and environmental recycling systems (water purification for fuel cells). Nippon Denko sells its products to steel, chemical, and aluminum industries, among others. Nippon Denko company was formed in 1963 with the merger of Nippon Denki Yakin Co. and Toho Denka Co.

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