United Stars has earned its stripes by working with metal. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates in three main business areas. United Industries and United Stainless together manufacture welded stainless steel tubing. Electric Materials fabricates copper components for use in electrical equipment. United Gear & Assembly manufactures gears and shafts from carbon and alloy steel. The subsidiaries operate locations throughout the Midwest as well as in Tennessee.

Sharon Coating is a prime galvanized and galvannealed steel coil supplier located in Sharon, Pennsylvania. Our strength is in the depth and scope of experience of our people, many well-known in the trade who have dedicated their careers to the steel industry.The knowledge gained through the end product diversity of our customers combined with a staff committed to assisting in new applications allows us to expand the realm of customer service.Sharon Coating management and employees share the responsibility for ensuring our customer's satisfaction by managing quality from the source of raw materials through final delivery of the product.

VSMPO-AVISMA (formerly Verkhnaya Salda Metallurgical Production Association if that helps at all) is a leading producer of titanium and magnesium alloys, including ingots and mill products. The Russia-based company also produces aluminum alloys, ferrotitanium, and other metal products. Subsidiary Tirus distributes products throughout Europe and North America, as well as provides services such as cutting, heat treating, precision grinding, and machining to customer specifications. Its NF&M International unit makes titanium billet and bar stock. VSMPO-AVISMA exports about 70% of its produced titanium; customers include leading aerospace companies such as Airbus, Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney, GE, and Boeing.

Introducing C-E Minerals a worldwide supplier of high quality aluminas, alumina-silica calcines, and fused minerals used in refractory, investment casting, semiconductor, abrasive, metal producing and many other industrial applications. With world headquarters in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, C-E Minerals operates an integrated, global network of processing and distribution facilities, R&D laboratories, sales and service offices and other support activities throughout North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Australia and South Africa. All are dedicated to meeting the changing needs of our customers for superior quality, innovative and cost-effective products and services. C-E Minerals is a member of the Imerys family of companies. Imerys, headquartered in Paris, France, is an international supplier and trader of industrial minerals and building materials. C-E Minerals is a company dedicated to expanding its product lines, to developing new markets, and to enhancing its role as a leading manufacturer and supplier of high quality industrial minerals. Through its network of strategically positioned facilities, C-E Minerals provides a "circle of excellence" that allows the company to obtain the highest quality raw materials and distribute the finest products throughout the world.

While Highveld Steel and Vanadium was once one of the world's leading producers of vanadium, now that it's a part of Russian steel producer Evraz, it's concentrating more on its steel assets. Highveld Steel mines its own ore for its steelworks, which produces plate, coil, billets and slabs. Those products go to the construction, shipbuilding, and rail industries, among others. Until the 2008 disposal of most of its vanadium operations, Highveld had gotten about a third of sales from that unit. But since 2006, Highveld Steel company has sold most of its ferro-alloy businesses as well as its 50% stake in South Africa Japan Vanadium and wholly owned subsidiary Vanchem.

Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. operates as a coal producer primarily in the central Appalachian and northern Appalachian regions. Alpha Natural Resources engages in underground room and pillar mining, and surface mining operations, with a focus on high bituminous, low sulfur steam coal and metallurgical coal reserves. It supplies and exports metallurgical coal for use in the steel-making processes; and thermal coal to electric utilities and manufacturing industries fuel for electricity generation. Alpha Natural Resources operates 61 mines and 14 coal preparation plants in Northern and Central Appalachia and the Powder River Basin. Alpha Natural Resources also involves in the purchase and resale of coal. Alpha Natural Resources serves electric utilities, steel manufacturers, industrial customers, and energy traders and brokers. Alpha Natural Resources was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Abingdon, Virginia.

Element Six is one of the leading suppliers of supermaterials – materials whose exceptional properties are unique or outperform others in their class. The group’s products are used across a wide range of industries from mining and construction to consumer electronics, within medicine and for oil and gas production. Element Six company also has a global sales, technical support and service networks.Element Six’s business activities are organized into four distinct areas – Advanced Materials, Hard Materials, Oil & Gas and Technologies. Each business serves global markets while focusing on specific customer segments. In addition, Element Six company has a venture capital fund to invest in innovative activities related to the use of one of our main supermaterials – synthetic diamond.Element Six company has production sites in the China, South Africa, Sweden, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Germany, Ireland and the UK with a global sales organisation. Research is carried out at dedicated laboratories in the UK and South Africa. A central Market Support Centre based in Shannon, Ireland, provides technical and customer support throughout the group.Element Six company has been working in the world of supermaterials for more than 50 years. From the beginning, Element Six placed an emphasis on quality and technical innovation. The results of the company’s efforts has lead to leadership in many of its market areas coupled with the creation of new solutions in the materials world

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.

Ferragon processes flat-rolled steel using techniques such as decambering, pickling, leveling, and slitting. Ferragon company is a toll processor, meaning that it processes customers' material for a fee rather than buying material, processing it, and reselling it. Ferragon operates primarily in Ohio and Michigan, but subsidiary FerrouSouth is based in Mississippi. The company's Ferrous Metal Transfer division transports processed steel. Other group companies include Ferrolux Metals, Metalux, and Ferrous Metal Processing. Ferragon president Eduardo Gonzalez founded Ferragon company in 1983.

Capstone Mining explores for and mines copper in Mexico and Canada. Its two main properties, the Mexican Cozamin and Canadian Minto, together yield about 100 million pounds of copper annually. The company also produces gold, silver, zinc, and lead at its mines. Capstone acquired the Minto property when it bought Sherwood Copper in late 2008. The acquisition added gold mining to Capstone's business. In addition to its producing mines, Capstone has copper exploration operations on a third property in British Columbia. The company was founded by CEO Darren Pylot.

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