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Isri.org

ISRI aims to help the scrap recycling industry develop in a sound, environmentally responsive manner and to foster public awareness of and appreciation for the value of the industry in the nation's production of goods and services.

Provides training and education to its members through seminars, workshops, roundtables, an annual convention, publications, and audio visuals.

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Scrap.org
Scrap is the bimonthly magazine of ISRI. It provides practical and useful information to scrap professionals that will increase the profitability of their businesses.

Acbl.net
ACBL is the world’s largest and most diversified barge line. They provide barging services, a fleet profile, e-business, and shows the territory they serve.

Worldsteel.org

Worldsteel is the global forum for the world steel industry and The International Iron and Steel Institute (ISII) and is one of the best-known organizations in the steel industry. The International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) was established within IISI to provide a worldwide forum for the stainless steel industry and is said to be the voice that presents the global industry to the world.

Steelnet.org
The Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA) is the primary trade association for scrap-based EAF steel makers.

SMA develops and supports public policy positions consistent with the interests of its members. They provide a forum for the exchange of information on technical matters and operations among member companies; serve as a source of information on the steel industry to suppliers, customers, and various government entities. SMA is committed to maintaining a low cost operation targeting for maximum impact issues of highest priority to its members in areas such as international trade, new materials, products and technology, environmental control, energy policy, and workforce matters.

Thenewsteel.com

North American steel producers, suppliers and affiliated organizations joined together in 1997 to form TheSteelAlliance, an unprecedented, industry-wide coalition charged with delivering the positive messages about steel to consumers. The New Steel is designed to help consumers recognize material's attributes.

Steel.org
The American Iron and Steel Institute engages in a wide variety of collective and collaborative activities such as communication, manufacturing and technology, market development, public policy, and statistics.

Recycle-steel.org
The Steel Recycling Institute (SRI) is an industry association that promotes and sustains the recycling of all steel products. The SRI educates the solid waste industry, government, business, and consumer about the benefits of steel's infinite recycling cycle.

Ingrambarge.com
Ingram Barge has been a quality marine transporter towing on America's inland waterways. Today Ingram Barge is one of the leading carriers of chemicals, coal, stone, fertilizer, ores, alloys, steel products and grain on the inland system.

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Glossary Of Metallurgical Terms
Principal Metals On-Line Glossary
Dictionary of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) Terms

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Burlington Northern Santa Fe

Operates one of the largest rail networks in North America. BNSF provides customers with quick links to get plenty of information on just about anything you need from BNSF.

Canadian National Railway Company

A unique railroad in North America linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts with the Gulf of Mexico. It operates a network of approximately 17,000 route miles of track in Canada and the United States. During the past five years, CN has undergone a major transformation, becoming the most improved railroad on the continent. CN offers customers new competitive options, improved service reliability, safer transportation, shorter transit times and better fleet utilization and car availability.

CSX Transportation

The largest railroad east of the Mississippi River, provides rail transportation and distribution services over 22,700 route miles and 31,365 track miles in 23 states, the District of Columbia and two Canadian provinces. CSX Transportation provides an efficient, comprehensive information link between the company and media sources. From ordering to billing to tracking your cars, CSX has an electronic solution to replace your paper, phone, and fax communications.

KCSI Transportation

Includes the four major North American railroad subsidiaries, which comprise the NAFTA Railway. KCSI is a diversified company featuring two primary lines of business: transportation and financial services. In July of 2000, KCSI spun off its Financial Services division into a separate company, called Stilwell Financial, Inc., and returned to its original core business as a transportation company. KCSI will now concentrate on expanding its franchise as the NAFTA Railway while meeting the growing transportation requirements of the North American marketplace.

Norfolk Southern

Norfolk Southern rail operations form a single system of some 21,600 miles of road in 22 states located in the East, the District of Columbia and the Province of Ontario, Canada. It owns a major freight railroad, Norfolk Southern Railway Company, and a natural resources company, Pocahontas Land Corporation. Norfolk Southern's research can give customers a thorough profile of a site's relevant geology. Norfolk Southern can also provide preliminary environmental screenings of prospective sites to help customers weigh environmental and wetlands considerations. Norfolk Southern gives customers a detailed rail layout and information about rail and non-rail transportation logistics for plants.

Canadian Pacific Railway

CPR is a Calgary-based company and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Limited, which also operates Canadian Pacific Hotels, CP Ships, PanCanadian Petroleum, and Fording Coal. CPR is one of the largest railway systems in North America, with about 15,500 miles of rail line in Canada and the United States. Canadian Pacific Railway’s goal is to provide the best possible service and we have included extensive corporate information for the benefit of customers, stakeholders, and anyone interested in our operations.

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News.com
CNET News is the source for providing information about computers and technology. Get free newsletters to meet your technology information needs. Also provides as a good search engine.

Wired.com
Wired News provides daily news and analysis of the technologies, companies, and people driving the information age brought to you by Lycos, Inc.

Reuters.com
Reuters provides stock information, charts, media information, and general news around the world.

Bankrate.com
Bankrate provides information about news, interest rates, investing, taxes, and plenty of other financial information.

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Metacrawler.com
Provides search tips, its fast, accurate, allows you to customize preferences for your search, and provides you to set up an account with MetaCrawler mail.

Google.com
Google is a search engine that also allows you to get stock quotes, advertise with them, and provides search tips.

Altavista.com
Altavista provides a good search in categories or for words separately, allows you to shop, shows what’s happening in the news, you can also set up an email account with Altavista, and free internet access.

About.com
About.com provides a broad search engine, allows you to subscribe to daily newsletters, has an online banking center, and allows you to join a chat room.

Askjeeves.com
Askjeeves.com allows you to type in a question and it responds immediately with results and provides related searches to the topic of interest, provides daily news, and allows you to shop online.

Excite.com
A popular search engine, personalize your page to show various items such as stocks, shows daily news stories, allows email accounts to be set up, send greeting cards, shop, and chat.

Infoseek.com
Infoseek directs you to Go.com a new search engine that also provides current new events, and shows the partners of Go.com.

Looksmart.com
Looksmart is the quality web directory, which allows a search by topics or general search of a specific word or words, and provides searches in other countries.

Lycos.com
Lycos provides a good search engine, allows you to personalize your Lycos page where you can trade stocks and get weather information. Also allows you to see what’s in the news, show top 50 hottest searches, send ecards, set up an email account, and shop the internet in other countries and languages as well.

Quickfindit.com
A search engine, also allows you to bid on products, and provides links to other search pages on the internet.

Yahoo.com
Yahoo is a popular search engine that allows you to access stocks, show current news stories, it provides a link to auctions, financial information, sets up email accounts, and much more in other countries as well.

Weather.com
Weather.com is the weather channel of the internet, it allows you to get weather forecasts for any city worldwide, shows breaking weather stories, top news stories, and provides as search engine for weather topics.

Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com provides a definition for a word entered into the search and also allows you to search a thesaurus.

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Lastminutetravel.com
Provides a search for airlines, lodging, vacations, cruises, and cars ranging from next day availability to any date availability.

Expedia.com
Popular site for booking airline flights, hotels, cars, cruises, and locating maps for getting directions to your next destination.

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Nsc.org
Nsc is the National Safety Council that provides information regarding the environment, health, and safety resources. It also provides booklets and catalogs to order.

Apha.org
APHA has been influencing policies and setting priorities in public health for over 125 years. Throughout its history it has been in the forefront of numerous efforts to prevent disease and promote health.

Osha.gov
The US dept of labor, provides events currently happening, an OSHA library, news releases, regulations, and an index to search.

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W3.org
Stands for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) organizes the work necessary for the development or evolution of a Web technology into Activities.

Techweb.com
Features top news stories about the technology industry and allows you to sign up for newletters.

Webopedia.com
Search on the internet for topics about computer technology and shows you diagrams and provides information about the search and sign up for newsletter.