Bob Tita

Bob Tita When Mitchell Metal Products decided to invest in a line of robotic welders and other automated assembly equipment, the company expected to build an addition to its metal-stamping plant in northern Wisconsin.

Steel imports from Asia are rising even with the 50% U.S. tariff intended to keep foreign-made steel out of the U.S., says Indiana-based Steel Dynamics. Flat-rolled sheet steel in Asia is selling for about half what U.S. steel buyers are paying for domestic steel, providing an incentive for Asian s

Shares of Cleveland-Cliffs are up about 16% after the steelmaker forecast profits in the back half of the year will be the strongest in five years. The company said third-quarter adjusted income before taxes would double from the second quarter.Moreover, the tariff on imported steel—a boon to dom

The president has replaced expiring tariffs with a host of new ones. Here is what to expect.

The White House's tariff revamp this past week represents yet another bend in President Trump's continuing tariff saga.

Nucor shares are up 6% today after strong quarterly results that Chief Executive Leon Topalian credited to President Trump’s aggressive use of tariffs, despite an uptick in steel imports. “Vigorous enforcement of our trade laws is curtailing the flood of unfairly traded steel into the U.S. market,”

Roxanne Brown's journey to leading the United Steelworkers union didn't start in the heat and deafening noise of a steel mill.

New union leader Roxanne Brown’s first test will be contract negotiations with U.S. Steel under its new Japanese ownership.

Caterpillar is giving the Dow industrials a big lift after its results showed strong demand for construction equipment for data center and infrastructure projects. The stock is up about 6%, single-handedly adding around 300 points to the Dow's gains this morning.Construction equipment sales grew

Data-center developers’ demand for generators is booming, and Caterpillar is racing to meet it. The construction equipment maker said Tuesday it converted an existing plant in Wamego, Kan., to make turbine engines popular with data centers. Caterpillar also is resuming production of 10-megawatt gen