United States Steel Corp. announced that it plans to relocate the administrative offices of its U. S. Steel Tubular Products subsidiary from Dallas to the company's corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh.

The U.S. International Trade Commission voted unanimously to issue a countervailing duty order and an antidumping duty order on imports of welded stainless pressure pipe from China.

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that total steel imports were down 5% in 2008 and finished steel imports fell 3%, based on preliminary figures.

Crane Co. announced that it has purchased all of the capital stock of Friedrich Krombach GmbH & Co.

U. S. Steel Tubular Products announced that it will exit the drawn-over-mandrel (DOM) tubular products business and close the DOM lines at its Texas Operations Division in Lone Star, TX.

American Piping Products (APP) said it has received a growth equity investment from Chicago-based The Edgewater Funds in partnership with APP’s senior management team.

Emerson announced that it has acquired Bay-Tec Engineering of Napa, CA.

SPX Corp. announced the sale of its GSE Scales product line, in the test and measurement segment, to Illinois Tool Works.

Eastway Supplies (Columbus, OH) named Scott Plinke director of its PVF division.

Northwest Pipe Co. said that it has received a Letter of Intent from Mexico’s Cableados Industriales SA de CV for a project in Baja, CA.