25 Jan

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[button size='small' style='' text='To Haiti Relief Page' icon='' icon_color='' link='/community/haiti-relief/' target='_self' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='' hover_background_color='' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align='left' margin='20px 20px 20px 20px'] January 25, 2010, By Margaret Harding, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Jim Bouchard went to Haiti with a plane full of medical supplies and returned this morning with his plane loaded with orphans — 102 of them. Bouchard, of Sewickley, helped organize what might have been the largest non-military shipment of narcotics to Haiti since an earthquake devastated its capital of Port-au-Prince two weeks ago. The plane, which left yesterday, carried about 35,000 pounds of medical supplies — enough pain medication for...

25 Jan

Posted at 11:10h in News Articles, News Articles Current
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[button size='small' style='' text='To Haiti Relief Page' icon='' icon_color='' link='/community/haiti-relief/' target='_self' color='' hover_color='' border_color='' hover_border_color='' background_color='' hover_background_color='' font_style='' font_weight='' text_align='left' margin='20px 20px 20px 20px'] January 25, 2010 By Dennis B. Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh Post Gazette Image Photo: Gretchen Herda, a nurse practitioner from Freedom, relaxes in a baggage cart and chats with Sharon Dennison, a nurse from Clarksburg, W.Va. before departing yesterday from Pittsburgh. The women were part of a mercy mission that brought 30,000 pounds of medical equipment and supplies to Haiti. The pair will work at the New Testament Mission in La Croix.   PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti - A 79-member medical team...

05 Jan

Posted at 11:14h in News Articles, News Articles Current
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January 5, 2010, nwitimes.com, By Times Staff A subsidiary of Chicago-based Esmark Inc. completed the purchase of a Pennsylvania-based machining and fabrication firm. Newly formed subsidiary Esmark Industrial Group paid $3.5 million in cash for Excalibur Machine Co. Inc. The firm, founded in 1987, supplies parts, sub-assemblies and materials handling equipment to manufacturers in the transportation, materials handling, heavy construction and power generation industries. Esmark Inc. Chairman James Bouchard said the purchase will save about 50 jobs and provide working capital financing to grow the business. David Luptak, co-chief executive officer of Esmark, will be president and chief executive officer of Esmark Industrial Group. Esmark’s...

04 Jan

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January 4, 2010, Crain’s, By John Pletz Jim Bouchard is hopping back on the steel roller-coaster. Last time around, Mr. Bouchard gathered up a collection of steel distributors and a struggling mill under the Esmark Inc. banner and sold them to Russia’s OAO Severstal for $1.2 billion at the industry’s peak in August 2008. Now, he and a group of investors that includes his brother Craig are looking to buy back the same businesses from Severstal at a steep discount. Photo: Esmark Chairman Jim Bouchard | AP photo “I think we can do exactly what we did before: buy low, be with the curve...