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Article: DOD to the U.S. specialty metals industry: we don't need you.
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- Manufacturing & Technology News
- Article date:
- April 17, 2009
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The health and well being of the U.S. specialty metals industry is not important to the Department of Defense, according to DOD's Strategic Materials Protection Board. Specialty metals are no different to DOD than materials such as plastic, rubber and glass, says the board in a report that is raising the ire of U.S. specialty metals industries. If the U.S. industry is not competitive, then there are plenty of reliable producers in Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Mexico, Brazil and Canada that can supply the U.S. military with most everything it needs, according to the Strategic Materials Protection Board.
The specialty metals industry has falsely made the claim ...