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Article: Specialty metals industry is on offense on defense.
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- Manufacturing & Technology News
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- January 19, 2006
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The U.S. specialty metals industry has issued a stern warning to the U.S. government and the Department of Defense: create an industrial policy that encourages investment in domestic production now, or risk the loss of an essential industry that supplies advanced materials used in every weapon system in the American arsenal.
The Specialty Steel Industry of North America (SSINA) says the U.S. government must take "dramatic and comprehensive" actions aimed at creating a better investment climate in the United States. If it does not do so, then foreign countries offering a myriad of inducements and illegal subsidies will capture the production of super alloys, ...