The Laguna Hills, Calif.-based North American Steel Alliance’s board of directors added three independently owned metal service centers >
Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., Los Angeles, purchased all outstanding capital securities of Continental Alloys & Services Inc., Houston >
Geometric Technologies, Scottsdale, Ariz., expanded the reseller base for its CAMWorks software. >
High Performance Alloys Inc., Tipton, Ind., was recognized as one of the 2011 Indiana Companies to Watch. >
Champagne Metals and Processing, Glenpool, Okla., announced the opening of a processing branch in northern Indiana. >
TMK IPSCO, Downers Grove, Ill., and the United Steelworkers Local 9368 agreed on a five-year labor contract that replaces the one that has expired.>
COE Press Equipment, Sterling Heights, Mich., entered a partnership agreement with Shung-Dar China, Kunshan City, Jiangsu, a division of Shung-Dar Industrial Co. Ltd., Changhua City, Taiwan, a manufacturer of automatic feeding equipment for press lines.>
JDM Steel Service, Chicago Heights, Ill., ordered a Red Bud Industries’ 0.5-inch by 72-inch stretcher leveler as part of an upgrade of the company’s processing capabilities.>
After completing and distributing its structural steel tubing Certified Producer Program Procedural Guide, which outlines the guidelines of the program, the Steel Tube Institute of North America, Glenview, Ill., is launching a voluntary, industry-wide hollow structural section (HSS) product certification program.>
Marmon/Keystone, Butler, Pa., recently installed a 6-ton Konecranes CXTD double girder, dual-hoist, overhead crane at its Bucyrus, Ohio, break bulk facility.>
Erickson Metals of Minnesota Inc., Coon Rapids, Minn., and Erickson Metals of Colorado Inc., Denver, subsidiaries of Erickson Metals Corp., Cheshire Conn., have purchased two saws from MetlSaw Systems, Benicia, Calif.>