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• Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation Announces Price Increase

  - 2007-03-01

  United States Steel Market Fundamentals Dramatically Improve WHEELING, W.V. -- Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation (NASDAQ:WPSC) announced today that it will raise transaction prices $50 per ton with orders scheduled for shipments effective April 1, 2007. "This price increase is in response to increased demand for carbon steel flat rolled...

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• Retired Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel executive Robert Lauterbach dies.

  - 2004-11-13

  By Corilyn Shropshire, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 13--Robert Emil Lauterbach, retired chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp., died Tuesday. He was 86. Mr. Lauterbach began his career with the...

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• Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp.(Metals Chips)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-11-04

  Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp., Wheeling, W.Va., said its new ladle-metallurgy furnace at the company's Mingo Junction, Ohio, plant began processing test heats early in October. The furnace is using molten steel from the company's basic oxygen furnace, since the company's new electric-arc furnace won't begin production ...

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• Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel seeks buyer for coke from Follansbee, W.Va., plant.

  - 2004-07-21

  By Len Boselovic, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 21--Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel is looking for ways to capitalize on what's become the industry's version of black gold: coke. The West Virginia steelmaker said once it fires up electric steelmaking...

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• West Virginia-based Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel plans stock sale.

  - 2004-07-02

  By Len Boselovic, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 2--The parent of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel plans to sell 3.1 million new shares, increasing the number of its shares by 30 percent at a time when investors have a soft spot for steel...

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• Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Signs Scrap Agreement

  - 2004-05-21

  WHEELING - Two Wheeling-based companies, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. and Herman Strauss Inc., have announced a strategic scrap agreement that makes Herman Strauss the scrap steel operator and exclusive scrap steel provider to Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel.As part of the agreement, officials said Herman Strauss will build, own and operate the scrap facility...

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• Labor Pact Clears Way for Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel's Exit from Bankruptcy.

  - 2003-07-31

  By Jim McKay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 31--Union employees of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. ratified a contract agreement yesterday that creates a new pension plan for current workers and will aid a smaller company's emergence from bankruptcy. ...

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• Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, Union Reach Tentative Contract Agreement.

  - 2003-06-27

  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 27--The United Steelworkers union yesterday reached tentative agreement on the terms of a new contract with Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. -- a key re...uirement for the troubled steelmaker to emerge from bankruptcy court protection with...

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• U.S. Agency Seeks Takeover of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Pensions.

  - 2003-03-08

  By Len Boselovic, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 8--In another sign the days of bankrupt Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel may be numbered, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. yesterday sought permission to terminate, or take over, the underfunded pension plan covering ...

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• Bankrupt Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Weighs Options without Loan Guarantees.

  - 2003-03-04

  By Len Boselovic, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 4--The federal government's rejection of a $250 million loan guarantee for bankrupt Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel is raising all-too-familiar cries of anger and anguish in distressed Ohio Valley steel towns. The...

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