CHS Acquisition supplies its customers with steel strong enough to support a train. Operating as Chicago Heights Steel, it recycles steel train track rails into tee posts (for fences) and signposts (for roadsides). Chicago Heights Steel also uses rail steel to make components used in the agriculture, construction, energy, and transportation industries. It was founded in 1986 when CHS Acquisition acquired a plant Keystone Consolidated had decomissioned the year prior.

Nucor Steel Marion, Inc. is a steel mini mill that manufactures a full line of specialty steel products in the specific shapes needed for the highway, construction and agricultural industries. We specialize in rebar, breakaway U-channel, small and mid-range signposts, delineators and cable barrier systems. Many of our brand names – NU-CABLE™, NU-GUARD™, RIB-BAK®, LAP-SPLICE™, BEND-BAK®, SLIP SAFE™, AND SLIP SAFE SUPREME™ are well known in these industries. We are a division of Nucor Steel and share their simple business philosophy: take care of our customers by being the safest, highest quality, lowest cost, most profitable steel and steel products company in the world.To service the concrete construction industry, we are the largest reinforcing bar manufacturer in the state of Ohio (and Nucor is the largest rebar manufacturer in the U.S.). In the highway market, nobody makes more small sign supports for more American roadways. Our breakaway U-channel systems for small and mid-sized signs exceed crash impact standards by over 200%. They utilize new-billet steel that has 25% greater tensile strength than our competition, and costs up to 50% less than other steel sign supports. And we offer low- and high-tension cable barrier systems that provide a unique combination of effective protection, visual appeal and economy in both median and guide rail applications. Finally, our support posts anchor the framework of a wide variety of fruit growing operations in the agricultural industry.

Mitsui Mining and Smelting (known as Mitsui Kinzoku), a member of the Mitsui "keiretsu," supplies nonferrous metals for industrial uses. Formed in 1950, Mitsui Mining company smelts, refines, and fabricates copper, zinc, and other nonferrous metals from ores produced at its own mines or purchased from outside sources. Mitsui Mining company is Japan's top producer of zinc, popularly used as a protective coating for steel. It makes die-cast parts from zinc, aluminum, and magnesium primarily for the automotive industry; it also makes copper foil, ceramics, and packaging tapes for the electronics industry. Mitsui Kinzoku's services groups are involved in environmental engineering, and metals recycling.

Sherritt International Corporation is a diversified natural resource company that produces nickel, cobalt, thermal coal, oil and gas, and electricity. It also licenses its proprietary technologies to other metals companies. A low-cost operator across all segments, Sherritt’s success is built on utilizing proven technologies and financial and operational expertise to increase productivity and profitability. Sherritt’s 293.1 million common shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol S. Sherritt is a world leader in the production of nickel from lateritic ore, with operations in Cuba and Canada, and a significant project under development in Madagascar. With nine surface mines, Sherritt is the largest thermal coal producer in Canada, and is developing Canada’s first coal gasification project. The company also produces oil from assets in Cuba, Spain and Pakistan, and manages 356 megawatts of power generation capacity in Cuba.Sherritt is committed to the highest standards of environment, health and safety practices at all of its operations, while making valuable contributions to local communities.

Aquarius Platinum wants platinum lovers to pour it on. The company mines for platinum and other platinum group metals (PGMs) in South Africa's highly productive Bushveld Complex and in Zimbabwe through its 50% stake in Mimosa Investments. PGMs, including palladium and rhodium, are used in electronics, catalytic converters, and jewelry. Aquarius Platinum focuses on small deposits and a capital-intensive (mechanized) rather than a labor-intensive mining model. Founded in 1996, the company produces just about half a million ounces of PGM annually, mostly at its 50%-owned Kroondal mine (a partnership with Anglo Platinum).

The Ohio Valley Aluminum Company (OVACO) makes aluminum billets for the aluminum extrusions industry. (A billet is pushed or drawn through a die to create an extruded, or shaped, product, such as a frame or rail.) The company operates from facilities in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio that can produce some 500 million pounds of billets annually. OVACO cuts billets according to customer specifications; it can produce billets ranging in length from 18 inches to 216 inches. The company was founded in 1955.

Show printable version of 'Our Business' item in a New WindowEmail 'Our Business' item to a friend Our Business The Company Tanzanian Royalty Exploration (T.TNX, AMEX.TRE) is a unique, publicly-traded financial gold company whose business strategy is to acquire royalty interests in gold production from its core assets in the Lake Victoria greenstone belt (LVGB) of Tanzania where a reported 40 million ounces of gold have been discovered since the mid-1990's. Tanzanian Royalty ranks among the largest landholders in the LVGB - one of the most prolific goldfields in the world. Established producers in this belt rank within the lowest percentile globally in terms of cash production costs.

G&S Minerals is less interested in hot burgers and ready to focus on hot mineral assets. The company used to be called Hot Brands, when it owned and operated the Hot 'n Now Burgers fast-food chain. Taking its current name from the minerals gold and silver, it now mines precious metals. Its primary gold mining property is the El Transito mine in Honduras. The burger business went bankrupt and was sold to STEN Corporation in 2005.

Natural Resource Partners L.P. (NRP) is a master limited partnership that is principally engaged in the business of owning and managing coal properties, and coal handling and transportation infrastructure in the three major coal producing regions of the United States: Appalachia, the Illinois Basin and the Powder River Basin. NRP also owns and manages aggregate reserves in Arizona, Texas, West Virginia and Washington. In addition the partnership manages oil and gas properties and timber assets in Appalachia.The partnership does not actively engage in the mining of any of its minerals or natural resources, but rather leases its properties to various operators in exchange for royalty payments.Natural Resource Partners is headquartered in Houston, TX with its operational headquarters in Huntington, WV.

Bohler-Uddeholm Corporation makes tooling materials for the North American industrial community. The company's main product is high-performance tool steel, which includes cold work steels, hot work steels, and plastics molding steels. Bohler-Uddeholm's Steel Stores are warehouses that sell (what else?) custom-cut steel to US tool and die customers. Bohler-Uddeholm company is the North American unit of Austrian specialty steel manufacturer BoHLER-UDDEHOLM.

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