Some great news from one of ManufactureThis’ partners – Arcelor Mittal USA’splant in Cleveland is gearing up to ship 12,000 tons of hot-rolled steel coils to Europe. The Cleveland Plain Dealer has an article that makes note of the highly competitive market, includes comments from Arcelor Mittal and from the president of the local United Steelworkers, who says:

“It speaks a lot of us that we can still make a competitive product.”

It certainly does, and points to the strength of the labor-management partnership between the United Steelworkers and leading manufacturers like Arcelor Mittal USA.

On Wednesday, AAM Executive Director Scott N. Paul will be in Cleveland, as the keynote speaker for WIRE-Net’s 19th Annual Meeting, and he’ll be talking about exactly this type of collaboration. WIRE-Net, like AAM, is committed to strengthening manufacturing and is a partnership made of up of a diverse group of organizations.

As the Plain Dealer article points out, and Scott will echo in his remarks on Wednesday, American workers and manufacturers can compete. NE Ohio, like regions all across the U.S., is home to a highly skilled and productive workforce, a workforce that can compete and win against any workforce in the world.

The 12,000 tons of U.S. produced steel headed to Europe is evidence of that…someday, we’ll know that all is right with the world, and our policymakers have stepped up to the plate to enforce the rules of international trade, when 12,000 tons of U.S. produced steel is headed to China.

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