It's a remarkable story. Their strategy of aggressively reducing costs and aggressively making acquisitions is a winning combination.

We were winning, 6-4, early on, then we got blitzed. They decided to take it to another level and we're not capable of going there.

It wouldn't have been a bad year if prices hadn't improved. They were realizing 3-4 cents a pound improvement in costs each quarter. So unlike other aluminum companies, they can keep the spread widening whether price goes up or not.

Most of the aluminum companies will be flat to slightly up in the third quarter versus a year ago, although there will be one or two that will be up 50 percent.

Most of the steel customers ran their inventories down very hard late last year.

This is a very equitable deal for both sides. I was not surprised at the price. I had been valuing Reynolds around that level for some time.