Word: metallers
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Pittsburgh's playbook still has some familiar features, but it is far more diverse. They still make stuff here, albeit with 8,400 fewer workers over 10 years. But commodity metals have been abandoned in favor of higher-value alloys like titanium. Importantly, the metal companies here now serve global industries that have been going flat out, such as power generation, energy, mining and transportation...
That in turn has created opportunities for the specialty high-value metals that Allegheny Technologies (ATI) makes. "We have manufacturing operations that no one else has," says spokesman Dan Greenfield. The company handles specialty alloys such as titanium and zirconium, as well as grain-oriented electrical steel used in the energy, power and aerospace industries. ATI is spending $1.16 billion over four years to improve its capability to do the most difficult metal rolling, which should preserve the 2,900 ATI jobs in the area. That funding is expected to be internally generated, so ATI doesn't have to worry...
...Kashkari grew up in Stow, Ohio, an Akron suburb. As a high school student, he was a fan of heavy metal bands like AC/DC, whose lyrics dot his high school yearbook. He is 35 years...
Walk past the front desk of the MAC. Take a left through the doors, walk down an office-filled hallway, and go through the imposingly heavy metal entrance. Hike up two flights of steep stairs...
...average 60-month new-car loan is priced at 7.10%, not much different from in the spring, according to HSH Associates, Financial Publishers. Those 0%-financing deals still exist too, from automakers desperate to move the metal. But you're not going to get that rate (or maybe any) unless your credit score is north of 700; a year ago, 620 might have gotten you wheels. Even people with good credit are starting to see trouble. The dealer network AutoNation reports that approval rates for that group have dropped to roughly 60% from 90% a year...