V&M Star shuts down for safety day

V&M Star shuts down for safety day

youngstown

The V&M Star plant shut down production Thursday for a companywide safety day. V&M Star’s parent company, Vallourec, shut down production at its mills and offices in 20 countries and asked its combined work force of 18,000 to think about safety. In addition to focusing on job safety, the day featured presentations on electrical, hunting, medication and fire safety and crime prevention. This is the first time the company has mandated a safety day for all of its subsidiaries and offices.

Quaker Steak plans nine new locations

sharon, pa.

Quaker Steak & Lube, the motor-sports-themed restaurant chain, has announced plans for nine new locations in 2010. The company recently broke ground on its first Colorado location, in the Denver suburb of Westminster. The restaurant, expected to open in October, is the chain’s farthest-west location. Quaker Steak & Lube also recently signed a development agreement for five new restaurants in Indiana and Michigan. The company is planning to open restaurants in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, Ind., and Grand Rapids and Livonia, Mich. They will be the first Quaker Steak & Lube restaurants in Michigan. By the end of the year, the company hopes to open additional restaurants in Kentucky, Virginia, Wisconsin and Ohio.

Cheaper gas prices down the road?

NEW YORK

Pump prices that typically begin a sprint for their annual highs right about now might be losing steam well ahead of the summer driving season.

The average price nationally for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline Friday was $2.92 a gallon, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. That’s down almost a penny from Thursday.

A gallon still is running about 78 cents higher today than a year ago, but there are indications that won’t last.

Staff and wire reports