Synalloy Corp. sells Blackman Uhler
Synalloy Corp., a producer of stainless steel pipe, fabricator of stainless and carbon steel piping systems, and producer of specialty chemicals, has announced that on 2 October 2009, the company entered into a Asset Purchase Agreement with SantoLubes Manufacturing LLC to sell the specialty chemical business of Blackman Uhler Specialties LLC (BU), along with certain property, plant and equipment held by Synalloy Corp., all located at the Spartanburg, South Carolina, US location. Greenville Tube receives ISO 9001:2008
US-based Greenville Tube, a RathGibson company, and manufacturer of small diameter stainless steel and nickel alloy seamless and US-based welded and drawn tubing and pipe, has received ISO 9001:2008 Certification. Partners wish to sell stake in gas storage project
Dutch oil and gas company Dyas and Canada's largest energy firm PetroCanada, are looking to sell their stakes in one of Europe's largest gas storage projects. Sudbury resumes partial production
Vale SA has restarted partial production on1 October 2009 at Sudbury, its largest nickel and copper unit in Canada, as a strike continues. Nucor acquires
Steelmaker Nucor Corp. now has acquired nearly 3900 acres in St James Parish, enough land to build its proposed USD 2 billion-plus mill. Still unknown, though, is whether the company will move forward with the mill, which would be part of a long-term strategy to supply raw materials to Nucor’s mini-steel mills across the south-central and SE US. 
Wood Group Pressure Control (WGPC), part of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC, has been awarded a contract by Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) valued at USD 11.2 million to provide 125 wellheads and Christmas trees for onshore oil & gas fields in Southern Mexico. 
Since Scott Hand and another former senior Inco executive have joined Canada-based mining company Royal Nickel Corp., the company has received a CAD 21.8 million investment from a major Chinese metal distributor. 
Acerinox SA expects to make its first profit since the second quarter last year as European and US customers replenish dwindling stockpiles. 
Foster Wheeler AG has announced that, effective 1 January 2010, W Troy Roder will be promoted to the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd (FWEL), which is based in Reading, UK, and is the company’s largest subsidiary in its Global Engineering and Construction Group. 
Concord Steel Inc., which constitutes most of the assets of parent company Stamford Industrial Group Inc., has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.