Tube City IMS opens Taiwan trading office

Glassport, Pennsylvania-based outsourced steel services provider, Tube City IMS, LLC, on Wednesday announced that it has opened its first representative trading office in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. J. David Aronson, president and COO, Raw Material and Optimization Group, said Taiwan is an increasingly important market in the Asia-Pacific region. "We believe the outsourced steel services market in Taiwan will continue to grow over the coming years," Mr. Aronson said. Tube City’s outsourced steel services include raw materials procurement, scrap management, raw materials optimization, slag processing, metal recovery and surface conditioning to integrated steel mills, minimills and foundries. The company has operations at 73 plants throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean, South America and Asia.