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Locker Associates is a New York City based business-consulting firm that specializes in enhancing the competitiveness of businesses and industries on behalf of corporate, union and government clients.  By combining expert business and financial analysis with a sensitivity to labor issues, our firm is uniquely qualified to help clients manage change by:

-- Leading joint labor/management business improvement initiatives
-- Facilitating ownership transitions to secure the long-term viability of a business
-- Conducting strategic industry studies to identify future challenges and opportunities
-- Representing unions in strategic planning and workspace reorganization
-- Formulating business plans for turnaround situations
-- Performing due diligence for equity and debt investors

Over the last nineteen years, our firm has directed over 200 projects spanning manufacturing, transportation, distribution and mining industries.  Typical projects involve in-depth analysis of a firm's market, financial and operating performance on behalf of a cooperative labor-management effort.  Locker Associates also publishes a widely read steel newsletter called Steel Industry Update
that circulates extensively throughout the steel industry.


Selected U.S. Steel Industry Data, June and Year-to-Date
(thousand tons)

Month of June

Year-to-Date
 
2010
2009
% Chg
2010
2009
% Chg
Raw Steel Production...........
7,816
4,811
62.5%
45,083
26,751
68.5%
Capacity Utilization..............
75.4
46.9
--
72.1
43.2
--
Mill Shipments.....................
7,292
4,797
52.0%
42,233
26,156
61.5%
Exports..............................
1,048
706
48.4%
6,222
3,937
58.0%
Total Imports......................
2,035
862
136.1%
11,706
8,624
35.7%
Finished Steel Imports..........
1,563
811
92.7%
9,189
8,057
14.0%
Apparent Steel Supply*........
7,807
4,902
59.3%
45,200
30,277
49.3%
Imports as % of Supply*......
20.0
16.5
--
20.3
26.6
--
Average Spot Price** ($/ton)..
$717
$534
34.3%
$693
$609
13.9%
Scrap# ($/ton).....................
$316
$255
23.9%
$340
$204
67.0%
Source: AISI & Purchasing Magazine & US Geological Survey *Excludes semi-finished imports
**Avg price of 8 carbon products #shredded bundles
 

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