2022 MCN Top 50 Service Centers By Dan Markham on Sep 13, 2022 Historic pricing and strong demand led to across the board sales records in the 20th year of MCN’s survey of North America’s largest service centers. Click here to download the 2022 Top 50 Service centers. Virtually every record imaginable was set in the 20th year of Metal Center News’ annual listing of the Top 50 largest service center companies in North America. The phenomenal pricing environment and explosive demand coming out of the brief COVID recession resulted in the greatest year-over-year revenue jump since MCN began tracking this data in 2002. Each...

13 September, 2022

By Beth Gainer, MCN Editor on Jul 18, 2022 Rising fuel prices, supply chain issues and lack of quality drivers are plaguing transportation and logistics, leaving industry professionals wondering if there is any end in sight. Over the last year, the trucking and logistics arena has had its share of woes. The price of fuel has skyrocketed, thanks in part to the Russian war on Ukraine. That, paired with the continued lack of quality drivers, makes life difficult for transportation companies. “Fuel has been the largest change in transportation and logistics since 2021. The price of fuel is incredibly difficult to deal with...

18 July, 2022

By Metal Center News Staff on May 26, 2022 Esmark Steel Group, a subsidiary of Esmark Inc., has promoted Don McIntyre to the position of senior vice president of purchasing. He had been serving as vice president and general manager. McIntyre has more than 30 years of experience in steel and related industries. Prior to his current role, he served as COO of Excalibur Machine and director of purchasing at Century Steel. “I have known and worked closely with Don for two decades, and he has always been a key ‘go to’ manager within Esmark,” said James P. Bouchard, Esmark, Inc. chairman and...

26 May, 2022

By Metal Center News Staff on Apr 19, 2022 Ohio Coatings Company, a joint venture between Esmark Inc., and South Korea’s TCC Steel, has appointed David Luptak as its CEO. Luptak has been serving as CEO of Esmark Industrial Group. Luptak succeeds Jim Tennant, who is retiring at the end of the month after a 40-year career. Luptak joined Esmark Inc., in 2006 when Esmark acquired Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel. At that time, and for several years as part of the Esmark enterprise, he served as president and COO of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel. Later he served as executive vice president of mill operations...

19 April, 2022

Sewickley Herald, Tribune-Review | Thursday, April 14, 2022 Esmark Inc. chairman and CEO James P. Bouchard and his long-time friend Martina Roda have made a second donation of $25,000 to aid and support Ukrainians seeking refuge in Košice, Slovakia. This is the Sewickley-based company’s second donation to City of Košice to aid Ukrainians fleeing to Slovakia. As of April 5, more than 302,700 Ukrainian refugees have entered Slovakia, according to a verified operational data portal. According to a news release, the company’s donations to the relief efforts now total $50,000. In March, Esmark announced an initial donation of $25,000 and — in an...

14 April, 2022

By Metal Center News Staff on Mar 15, 2022 Esmark Inc. Chairman and CEO James P. Bouchard and Martina Roda have made an initial donation of $25,000 to aid and support Ukrainians seeking refuge in Košice, Slovakia. They will also match monetary donations made by Americans who support Ukrainian refugees up to an additional $25,000. Bouchard is a former U.S. Steel executive vice president and statutory representative of the Slovak Republic, transforming East Slovakian Ironworks, Košice – now known as U.S. Steel Košice – in Slovakia after U.S. Steel acquired it. Bouchard and Roda’s donation was made on behalf of the former...

15 March, 2022

Kalea Gunderson, Reporter Ukrainian NAPHL hockey players are uncertain when they will be able to reunite with family in Lviv, Ukraine. Two Ukrainian friends and teammates are spending their freshman year of high school in Pennsylvania, traveling the country with the Esmark Stars AAA Hockey Team, but their plans to head home to visit family are uncertain as Russia’s attacks on Ukraine continue. “I think America is better for me, like hockey, school, education, like future,” Vitalli Ulianov said. Vitalli Ulianov and Vladyslav Bomaziuk are staying with Kyle McLaughlin's family. A representative of the North American Prospects Hockey League said the Esmark Starts team is...

09 March, 2022

By Metal Center News Staff on Nov 12, 2021 Esmark Steel Group, a subsidiary of Esmark, Inc., announced today that David Brewer, vice president of operations has been promoted to executive vice president of business development. He will report to Jim Bouchard, chariman of Esmark Inc. John Dergentis will succeed Brewer as vice president of operations. Dergentis had been serving as plant manager of Esmark’s Chicago Heights facility. “Dave has been a key part of the Esmark enterprise for nearly 20 years, providing invaluable service and leadership,” said Bouchard. “He has been a trusted, loyal and valued member of our Esmark family, and...

12 November, 2021

2021 MCN Top 50 Service Centers By Dan Markham on Sep 14, 2021 The pandemic took a bite out of revenues for the continent’s largest service centers, but the rough times will undoubtedly be short-lived. Click here to download the 2021 Top 50 Service centers. For the service center sector, the pandemic year of 2020 was not as devastating as the Great Recession period. But its statistical effect on the Top 50 service center survey was still quite severe. Each year, Metal Center News compiles sales figures for most of North America’s largest service center companies, publishing its results in the MCN Top 50, now...

14 September, 2021

By Beth Gainer on Jul 26, 2021 Regulations, COVID-19 effects exacerbate existing driver shortage, making trucks as hard to find as steel. Long before March 2020, the transportation industry was facing a serious shortfall in driver and truck capacity. The pandemic has only amplified that issue. In the U.S. trucking world, worker shortages are growing at alarming rates. The shortfall of professional truck drivers is approximately more than 60,000, and the American Trucking Associations estimates that by 2028, the industry could be down as many as 160,000 drivers. That’s the conclusion of Bob Elkins, senior vice president, industry vertical operations, Ruan Transportation Management Systems,...

26 July, 2021