wiredinUSA July 2014

Dies partnership

Steel nails investigation

Peter Neville, B&H Tool Company’s president and CEO, announced that effective 21 st October 2013, B&H was recapitalized and is now a partnership known as B&H Tool Company LLC. Neville will remain inhiscurrent role, andJohnUlcej, who was formerly owner and president of EDI in Chippewa Falls, will become the director of technology, engineering, and manufacturing at B&H. B&H Tool Company LLC specializes in the design and manufacturing of high quality standard and custom crosshead and in-line dies used for wire coating and tubing, serving industrial and medical markets throughout the world. Peter Neville has owned and managed B&H since 1994. John Ulcej said: “We look forward to investing in the people and technology required to keep B&H positioned as a high quality manufacturer of precision tooling for the wire, cable, and tubing industries. Our intent is to become a state-of-the-art engineering and manufacturing facility that provides exceptional customer service.”

The US department of commerce has confirmed it will look into whether steel nails from India, South Korea, Malaysia, Oman, Taiwan, Turkey and Vietnam are being sold below cost in the United States. The complaint was lodged by Mid Continent Steel & Wire, the largest bulk pallet nail manufacturer in the United States, which claims that imports benefited from unfair government subsidies. The international trade commission will rule by 14 th July. If it finds there is reason to believe the imports have the potential to damage the local industry, import duties of as much as 589.78 percent could be imposed on nails from India.

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