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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, the firm is uniquely qualified to help clients manage change by:

Leading joint labor/management business improvement initiatives

Facilitating ownership transitionsto secure the long-term viability of a business

Conducting strategic industry studies to identify future challenges and opportunities

Representing unions in strategic planning and workplace reorganization

Formulating business plans for turnaround situations

Performing due diligence for equity and debt investors

Over the last nineteen years, the 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, September and Year-to-Date
(thousand tons)

Month of September
Year-to-Date
 
2008
2007
% Chg
2008
2007
%Chg
Raw Steel Production.....................
8,644
8,775
-1.5%
83,747
80,522
4.0%
Capacity Utilization........................
84.5
86.5
--
89.7
86.1
--
Mill Shipments...............................
7,920
8,492
-6.7%
80,970
79,696
1.6%
Exports..............................................
1,394
996
40.0%
10,550
8,237
28.1%
Total Imports....................................
2,949
2,388
23.5%
24,335
26,144
-6.9%
Finished Steel Imports..............,....
2,455
2,024
21.3%
19,395
21,080
-8.0%
Apparent Steel Supply*.................
8,981
9,520
-5.7%
89,815
92,539
-2.9%
Imports as % of Supply*.................
27.3
21.3
--
21.6
22.8
--
Average Spot Price** ($/ton).............
1,112
639
74.1%
970
648
49.7%
Scrap# ($/ton).....................................
374
288
29.9%
477
287
65.9%
Source: AISI & Purchasing Magazine & US Geological Survey *Excludes semi-finished imports
**Avg price of 8 carbon products #shredded bundles
 

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