July 2021 Market Insight
Economic News The U.S. economy grew at a rate of 6.4% in the first three months of 2021. Economists believe this may be the strongest year for the economy in about seven decades. They also believe the...
View ArticleAugust 2021 Market Insight Guide
Economic News The U.S. economy most likely gained steam in the second quarter, as massive government aid and vaccinations for COVID-19 fueled travel spending. The possible acceleration would lift the...
View ArticleOctober 2021 Market Insight
Economic News The U.S. unemployment claims fell to 326,000 last month, the first drop in four weeks, a sign that the U.S. job market and economy continue their steady recovery from last year’s...
View ArticleA Comprehensive Look at Industrial Metal Supply Careers
When designing a career path, it can be difficult to parse through all the many factors of that choice. Jobs applicants must consider personal interest levels, available job benefits, and performance...
View ArticleA Glimpse at Our Team: Warehouse Operations Specialist
When people think of the metalworks industry, they often think of welding, cutting, and shaping slabs of metal into shapes requested by the customer. While the industry itself involves a lot more than...
View ArticleShaping Heavy Steel Plate and Plasma Steel Cutting
When you complete a project with heavy-duty applications, ordinary metals will not do. Truly impressive projects require truly impressive materials to ensure that they hold up over time. Heavy steel...
View ArticleExploring the Metal Fabrication Process
Metal is a big part of how we humans get along. We use metal in everything, but it doesn’t come out of the ground as MRI machines or semi trucks. The metal fabrication process is how we create the...
View Article5 of the Basic Ways to Finish Processed Metal
Metal provides a wonderfully diverse starting point for many of the products we interact with on a daily basis. There are hundreds of ways to finish processed metal, methods for cutting, boring,...
View ArticleFinish Processed Steel with These 5 Methods
This month we continue our exploration of how we finish processed steel. With methods like plasma cutting, polishing, press brake cutting, sawing, and shearing, an experienced fabricator can create the...
View ArticleNorfolk Iron & Metal to Unify All Companies Under One Brand Name
NORFOLK, NE, AUGUST 2, 2023 —Norfolk Iron & Metal (NIM), one of the nation’s largest family-owned networks of steel service centers announced today that the company will be unifying all company...
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