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Metal
Strategies Inc.
is a leading international metals research and management consulting firm
specializing primarily in all strategic aspects of the world steel industry,
and secondarily in the world aluminum and non-ferrous metals
industries. We
are in our twelfth full year of operations as of 2008 with primary offices in
suburban Philadelphia, and satellite offices in Pittsburgh, PA, Cleveland, OH,
and Bath, UK, and affiliate offices in Stockholm, Sweden.
We
now provide detailed metals and ore production presentations and data via our
Executive Steel Report system. World production of Steel Products, End
Markets, Economic Data, Raw Materials and Steel Making Materials prices (with
volume pricing) are published on a 40 - 60 day cycle to our subscribers. Data is
provided in presentation (read access) and raw data (full access) popular file
types. Visit the ESR page for details.
Each
of the 15 principal/partners of MSI has up to 25 or more years of direct
professional industry experience in the steel and metals industries, many at the
Director or Senior Vice President level in areas such as Commercial, Strategic
Planning, Engineering & Technology, Financial, and Labor Management, among
others, for companies including the following:
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Chase
Manhattan Bank |
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CRU-International |
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Beddows
& Co. |
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AK
Steel/Armco Steel |
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Krupp
Engineering / D&L Engineering |
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Ipsco
Steel |
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Cleveland
Cliffs |
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Amax
/ Alumax |
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Standard
& Poors DRI/WEFA |
| Metal
Markets and Corporate Strategies |
| Business strategy development and
evaluation
| Customized market research and
competitive environment assessment
| Commercial and technical feasibility
studies and risk evaluations
| Full scope due diligence studies
| Assets Value Analysis
| Operations benchmarking, cost modeling
and analysis
| Corporate mergers and acquisitions
analysis and advisory
| Labor and employment advisory
| Legal consulting
| Worldwide steel plant cost, market and
financial databases |
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| Technologies
and Operations Management |
| Steelmaking and rolling operations,
mill facilities and process technologies
| Evaluation of product mix, process
technology and mill facilities for financially sustainable operation
| Restructuring and re-start of
financially troubled steel companies
| Shutdown and liquidation of unutilized
or unprofitable assets
| Production efficiency optimization for
the remaining operating facilities
| New, modernized or shutdown mill
facilities start-up advisory
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