US Steel Research Articles

Antidumping and Production-Line Exit: The Case of the US Steel Industry

We present and examine a novel data set that contains production line information inside US steel plants. We exploit this highly disaggregated data to perform the first study of entry and exit behavior at the level of the production line within individual plants. Our empirical analysis reveals a number of interesting results. First, smaller production lines are more likely to shut down, as are lines that are owned by larger firms. Younger production lines and lines that have undergone modernization are more likely to survive. Our results indicate that lines that are operated by integrated producers are more likely to exit. We find no evidence, however, that antidumping decreases the likelihood of exit, despite the steel industry’s frequent use of antidumping protection.

How Different Are Safeguards from Antidumping? Evidence from US Trade Policies Toward Steel

Use of temporary trade barriers has proliferated across countries, industries, and even policy instruments. This paper constructs a panel of bilateral, product-level United States steel imports that are matched to a unique data set on trade policy exclusions that are associated with the 2002 United States steel safeguard in order to compare the trade impacts that result from application of various temporary trade barrier policies over 1989-2003. The analysis finds that the trade effects of an applied safeguard -- which is statutorily expected to follow the principle of nondiscriminatory treatment -- can nevertheless compare closely with the application of the explicitly discriminatory antidumping policy. The results on trade policy substitutability complement other recent research on these increasingly important forms of import protection.

The First Four Wells: Unconventional Gas in Australia

The First Four Wells: Unconventional Gas in Australia

Reallocation and Technology: Evidence from the US Steel Industry

We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel—the minimill—on industry-wide productivity in the US steel industry, using unique plant-level data between 1963 and 2002. The sharp increase in the industry's productivity is linked to this new technology through two distinct mechanisms: (i ) the mere displacement of the older technology (vertically integrated producers) was responsible for a third of the increase in the industry's productivity, and (ii ) increased competition, due the minimill expansion, drove a productivity resurgence at the surviving vertical integrated producers and, consequently, the productivity of the industry as a whole. (JEL D24, L13, L23, L61, M11, O31, O33)

Sustainable Case Study: United States Steel Corporation

Overall, the North American Steel Industry has made significant strides to protect our environment and preserve our resources by: reducing overall energy consumption per ton of steel by 29% since 1990; reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (including CO2) by more than 25% from 1994 thru 2003; reducing air toxics volumes by more than 70% from 1994 thru 2003, and total air & water discharges by 69%; collecting and reusing of steel making by products such as: slag for road building, railroad ballasts, fertilizer, glassmaking, & other applications; coke oven & steel making gases for fuel/heat generation; increased steel manufacturing efficiencies now result in the production of 100 units of steel from 114 units of raw steel vs. 140 units previously, which has resulted in a yield improvement of 16% to 87% from 71%. These statistics indicate that the industry is doing an efficient job improving the environment in such a short span of time. Recently, United States Steel Corporation has been taking strides to improving sustainability within its corporation. Originally, U.S. Steel has always been a company that prides itself on good business practices. Today, they are taking further steps by incorporating sustainable measures to fit the trend developing in society. This is a study devoted to evaluating U.S. Steel’s current successes and failures regarding their recent sustainability practices.

Rise and Fall of the Contract System in the American Iron and Steel Industry

This paper investigates the historical accounts of the ineffectiveness of the contract system in the US iron and steel industry during the second half of the nineteenth-century. The high rate of technological innovation, along with the extensive bargaining power of the old industrial crafts, made output-related pay so costly as to be unsustainable in the long run. A sliding scale, together with piece-rate pay, did nothing but exacerbate the labour problem.

Promises Are Meant to Be Kept: A Case Comment on Attorney General of Canada v. United States Steel Corporation

On 12 December 2011, the Canadian Minister of Industry announced that an out-of-court settlement had been reached with United States Steel Corporation (hereinafter 'US Steel') in relation to a dispute that arose from alleged non-compliance of undertakings that US Steel had given the Minister in the context of receiving regulatory approval for its acquisition of the Canadian steel manufacturer Stelco Inc. in 2007. This case note briefly discusses the background to this first-of-its kind dispute in Canada, the settlement and the implications thereof that non-Canadian investors should be aware of when considering an investment in Canada.

Cointegration and causal relationships among steel prices of Mainland China, Taiwan, and USA in the presence of multiple structural changes

Variation in the price of steel is an important factor to take into consideration when discussing cost control and management decisions in the construction industry. We employ various conventional and advanced econometrics methods to examine the interrelationships of steel prices in three related markets during the time period June 2002 to May 2010: Mainland China (CH), Taiwan (TW), and the United States (US). We adopt the Gregory and Hansen (GH) test and regime-switching (RS) model for cointegration, both of which accommodate endogenous structural break(s), to produce a more accurate analysis of a period in the presence of structural change(s). The empirical result of the RS cointegration test with respect to multiple structural breaks suggests a long-run equilibrium relationship among the three variables considered. This finding differs from the result of the GH test but confirms the result of the conventional Johansen test. Furthermore, the results of the Granger causality test indicate that both CH and US steel prices have great influence on the TW steel price; the Taiwanese steel market is closely linked with China and US steel markets in the long run.

Madam Zajj and US Steel

This essay develops a theoretical framework of biopolitical performance, or more simply bioperformance, with which to approach the 1957 televised broadcast of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s A Drum Is a Woman. Presented on the drama anthology program The United States Steel Hour, this theater-music-dance suite fused elements of Afro-Caribbean rhythm with swing and bebop to tell a history of jazz, featuring acclaimed performers such as Carmen de Lavallade, Margaret Tynes, Joya Sherrill, and Talley Beatty. Structured by the conventions of the corporate-sponsored anthology drama, the CBS broadcast promoted two competing and incompatible narratives: one that traced a direct line from the innovations of mid-century corporate prosperity to middle-class domestic security and another that followed a black expressive line of flight as it moved across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, New Orleans, the US urban North, and finally the moon. I argue that through their musical/theatrical/televisual experimentation Ellington and Strayhorn created a hybrid performance in the mode of “calypso theater”: a formal and thematic engagement with an Afro-Caribbean performance history. Their calypso theater sounded and staged a philosophy of the history of jazz predicated on the production of a people that emerge as a refusal of the biopolitical population addressed by US Steel. By focusing on the televised performance’s dance and dramaturgy, this analysis shows how A Drum Is a Woman imagined a decorporealization of the body and a queer transubstantiation of sound that contested the corporate body of national citizenship and the regularized body of Jim Crow.

Complex evaluation the type and amount of industrial damages commenced as the consequence of fly ash and slag dumping from the thermo power plants, heating plants and metallurgical plants on arable and other agricultural land

Tendency for sustainable economic development of the Republic of Serbia shows the extraordinary demands for all types of energy, and especially for increasing amounts of so called 'clean' energy. Since the Republic of Serbia more than 60% of the need for energy fulfill from the thermo energy power plants with combustion of huge amount fossil fuel as the 'product' remains huge amount of fly ash and slag. Beside this, the big metallurgical plants of iron, steel and stained metals like the US Steel in Smederevo and RTB Bor, also produce a significant amount of incombustible materials. Evaluation the type and amount of industrial damages commenced on the mentioned process is very complex problem which requires a multidisciplinary approach. To reach qualitative solutions, it has to be taken into consideration both ecologically acceptable and economically sustainable solutions.

Chaos and Manage of Minor Steel Enterprises in China

Although our country is the big steel country in the world, she is not the steel power in the world. One of the reasons is that in recent years the minor iron and steel enterprise springing up and this scene seriously disturbs the normal development of the steel industry in our country, thus weakening our right to decide the price of imports iron ore. Quantities of national wealth have been largely passed on. Therefore, building up a strong steel enterprise by merger and recombination, improving iron ore market and developing the circular economy become inevitable selection for enhancing China's power for iron ore pricing.

Chaos and Manage of Minor Steel Enterprises in China

Although our country is the big steel country in the world, she is not the steel power in the world. One of the reasons is that in recent years the minor iron and steel enterprise springing up and this scene seriously disturbs the normal development of the steel industry in our country, thus weakening our right to decide the price of imports iron ore. Quantities of national wealth have been largely passed on. Therefore, building up a strong steel enterprise by merger and recombination, improving iron ore market and developing the circular economy become inevitable selection for enhancing China's power for iron ore pricing.

Realize the Mechanics Model in Hoisting Steel Ladle with the Method of Concentric Circles Annular Load

In view of the trial-hoisting problem in the trial-production process of big steel ladle, Simulate the standing force condition with the method of concentric circles annular load. This paper has built deduced, analysed and calculated the mechanics model and formula of steel ladle with elastic mechanics theory. After practised and improvement, this method already had become the checking process of steel ladle.

Nerves of steel in glocal challenge

PurposeThis article aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approachThe briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.FindingsCreating the biggest steel company in the world is quite an achievement. Creating the conditions to ensure that the businesses within it restructure and merge into one coherent enterprise is a daunting task. When Arcelor and Mittal Steel merged in 2006, the new ArcelorMittal found itself with a genuinely global reach, with large workforces located in mature markets like the USA and Western Europe, as well as emerging markets, such as Brazil, China, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.Practical implicationsThe article provides strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations.Originality/valueThe briefing saves busy executives and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy‐to‐digest format.

Investigation of the effect of selected aerobic programs on improving vocational relationships

Article history: Received April 1, 2011 Received in Revised form June, 7, 2011 Accepted 8 June 2011 Available online 14 June 2011 The new millennium has commenced with an increase awareness of precious value of human resources. Many large firms have increased to use new human resources mobilization policies and the importance of human potential in business has developed, dramatically. There different methods to help human resources increase their potentials such as providing recreational centers, athletic facilities, etc. In this paper, we study the impact of providing exercise facilities on improving the efficiency of employees in management level in the biggest steel producers in Iran called Mobarakeh Steel Complex. In this company, there were about 85 middle level managers and supervisors and the proposed study selects 30 people, randomly and divides them into two equal groups. In the first stage of the study, questionnaire of vocational relation are distributed among the participants of our experiment and we measure some important factors, which could improve vocational relationships. Next, the experimental groups are invited to take part in some selective aerobic programs for 8 weeks and 3 sessions per week and 1 hour and 15 minutes per session, regularly. Finally, we repeat the same experiments after the aerobic programs end and compare the results with the first one. The preliminary results indicate that there is a meaningful difference between the healthcares of these two groups. © 2011 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Quantificação e análise do custo da sobra limpa em unidades de alimentação e nutrição de uma empresa de grande porte

OBJETIVO:O propósito deste estudo foi quantificar e avaliar o custo da sobra limpa em oito unidades de alimentação e nutrição de uma empresa siderúrgica de grande porte. MÉTODOS: Foram avaliadas oito unidades de alimentação e nutrição durante cinco meses. A quantificação da sobra limpa considerou as sobras e o número de refeições planejadas e servidas diariamente. As preparações foram divididas em grupos, sendo os custos obtidos a partir do valor médio dos alimentos adquiridos no mês. RESULTADOS: Cinquenta por cento das unidades de alimentação e nutrição não atingiram valores inferiores ou iguais a 30g, meta per capita de sobra limpa determinada pela empresa. Os per capitas totais de sobra limpa variaram entre 24g e 60g, equivalentes a 176kg-1.213kg de alimentos desperdiçados mensalmente. As saladas apresentaram as maiores porcentagens de desperdício na maioria das unidades. O custo mensal com as sobras atingiu de 2,2% a 3% do valor gasto mensalmente com alimentos, representando um custo elevado para a empresa (entre 80 a 108 salários-mínimos). Diante dos resultados obtidos, foram propostas medidas de intervenção, tais como planejamento e elaboração adequada das preparações, caracterização dos clientes e ações para educação nutricional. CONCLUSÃO: As unidades de alimentação e nutrição apresentaram considerável perda de alimentos com a sobra limpa. A implementação das intervenções propostas poderá minimizar essa perda. O valor gasto com esse desperdício poderia ser revertido em melhorias nos processos produtivos.

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Abstract NEWS Data show modest increase in 2010 charitable giving New report outlines key imperatives for creating ‘sustainable value’ SCUTTLEBUTT SPOTLIGHT Utilities industry Reliant Energy American Electric Power Company Inc. Portland General Electric Company Consolidated Edison Inc. Natural resources industry Ashland Inc. United States Steel Corporation ConocoPhillips Alpha Natural Resources Inc. GRANT ALERTS Arts and Culture Endangered Language Fund grants for tribal programs NEA's Arts in Media grants Children and Youth Build‐A‐Bear Workshop children's grants Community Development Green Communities grants for green building design Ameriprise Financial Community Grants Open Spaces urban green space grants Education Barbara Bush Foundation literacy grants Environment Patagonia environmental activism grants Fund for Wild Nature environmental advocacy grants Medical Research Alzheimer's drug discovery grants Women Elsevier Foundation grants for women scientists

Evaluation of atmospheric sources of PCDD/Fs, PCBs and PBDEs around a steel industrial complex in northeast China using passive air samplers

The concern about emissions of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) from steel industrial parks has increased in the past decades. In this study, polyurethane foam (PUF)-disk based passive air samples were collected in and around a big steel industrial park of Anshan, Northeast China from June 2008 to March 2009. The levels, seasonal variations and potential sources of PCDD/Fs, PCBs and PBDEs in the atmosphere around the steel industrial complex were investigated, and potential contribution of these three groups of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from iron and steel production was also assessed. The air concentrations of ∑17PCDD/Fs (summer: 0.02–2.77pgm−3; winter: 0.20–9.79pgm−3), ∑19PCBs (summer: 23.5–155.8pgm−3; winter: 14.6–81.3pgm−3) and ∑13PBDEs (summer: 2.91–10.7pgm−3; winter: 1.10–3.89pgm−3) in this targeted industrial park were relatively low in comparison to other studies, which implied that the industrial activities of iron and steel had not resulted in serious contamination to the ambient air in this area. On the whole, the air concentrations of PCDD/Fs in winter were higher than those of summer, whereas the concentrations of PCBs and PBDEs showed opposite trends. The result from principal component analysis indicated that coal combustion might be the main contributor of PCDD/F sources in this area.

Analysis on High-Speed Sampling Device with Big Interior Force

For the biggest top steel ring, the sampling device characteristic seriously influences on precision sampling. The simulation model was built in AMESim and certificated by experiments. Through simulation, the external load and the car interior are important factors in speed stability. It derived the calculation formula on external load and compared with experimental results. Under the load limit, the velocity will stable with load change. Above the load limit, the velocity will fluctuate violently. An overweight car prolongs the starting time and aggravates the braking vibration. Under a reasonable design specification, 300kg is optimum. These conclusions had been applied in this newly designed device effectively.

Hired Hands or Human Resources? Case Studies of HRM Programs and Practices in Early American Industry

This is the second book of a two-volume set. In the first volume, Managing the Human Factor: The Early Years of Human Resource Management in American Industry (2008), Bruce E. Kaufman told the story of the forces—such as scientific management and the labor movement—and figures—such as Frederick Winslow Taylor and Samuel Gompers—that transformed employee relations for better or worse in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This new book presents fifteen detailed case studies that show how companies either conceived of employees as “hired hands” or opted for a more holistic style of human relations management (HRM), the altruism of which Kaufman sensibly refuses to overestimate. The case studies offer fresh and interesting material on employee relations at such well-known firms as Ford Motor Company, United States Steel Corporation, and Pullman Palace Car Company. Also commendable are Kaufman's case studies drawn from the work of Industrial Relations Counselors (IRC), the consulting firm that was founded by John D. Rockefeller Jr. after the 1914 Ludlow massacre, in which workers, women, and children were murdered during a Colorado strike against his family's mining interests. The IRC aimed to save top management from being blindsided by frontline managers’ malfeasance in labor relations, which was what Rockefeller believed had happened at Ludlow. Legal restrictions prevented Kaufman from naming the companies in the IRC reports, rendering the cases a bit lifeless. But the fact that the IRC filed hundreds of such reports suggests how large—and easily underestimated—was corporate America's pre–Great Depression investment in “welfare capitalism” (p. 115).