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Description of Locker Associates... |
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Locker
Associates
is a New York City based business-consulting firm that specializes
in enhancing the competitiveness of businesses and industries
on behalf of corporate, union and government clients. By combining
expert business and financial analysis with a sensitivity to labor
issues, our firm is uniquely qualified to help clients manage change
by:
-- Leading joint labor/management business improvement initiatives
-- Facilitating ownership transitions to secure the long-term viability
of a business
-- Conducting strategic industry studies to identify future challenges
and opportunities
-- Representing unions in strategic planning and workspace reorganization
-- Formulating business plans for turnaround situations
-- Performing due diligence for equity and debt investors
Over the last nineteen years, our firm has directed over 200 projects
spanning manufacturing, transportation, distribution and mining
industries. Typical projects involve in-depth analysis of
a firm's market, financial and operating performance on behalf
of a cooperative labor-management effort. Locker Associates
also publishes a widely read steel newsletter called Steel
Industry Update that
circulates extensively throughout the steel industry.
| Selected
U.S. Steel Industry Data, February and
Year-to-Date |
| (in
thousand tons, except where noted) |
|
Year-to-Date |
| |
2012 |
2011 |
%
Chg |
2012 |
2011 |
%
Chg |
| Raw
Steel Production........... |
8,316 |
7,374 |
12.8% |
16,811 |
15,301 |
9.9% |
|
Capacity Utilization.............. |
80.7 |
75.4 |
-- |
79.1 |
74.2 |
-- |
| Mill
Shipments..................... |
8,407 |
6,967 |
20.7% |
16,905 |
14,496 |
16.6% |
| Exports.............................. |
1,211 |
951 |
27.3% |
2,473 |
2,011 |
23.0% |
| Total
Imports...................... |
2,721 |
1,845 |
47.5% |
5,536 |
3,962 |
39.7% |
| Finished
Steel Imports.......... |
2,080 |
1,438 |
44.6% |
4,284 |
3,138 |
36.5% |
| Apparent
Steel Supply*........ |
9,276 |
7,454 |
24.4% |
18,716 |
15,624 |
19.8% |
| Imports
as % of Supply*...... |
22.4 |
19.3 |
-- |
22.9 |
20.1 |
-- |
| Average
Spot Price** ($/ton).. |
$833 |
$913 |
-8.8% |
$835 |
$881 |
-5.3% |
| Scrap#
($/ton)..................... |
$435 |
$432 |
0.7% |
$451 |
$444 |
1.6% |
Source:
AISI, SteelBenchmarker *Excludes semi-finished imports;
**Avg price of 4carbon products #steel scrap-shredded
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