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Scrap supply from Russia to decline further

January 23rd, 2008 by James Moss in Raw Materials, Russia

This is a very interesting presentation from Russian mining & metallurgical company Metalloinvest from September 2007. It provides some good data on Russian steel output through 2015 along with changing raw material use and sources as the Russian economy and particularly the steelmaking portion expand. This is especially important as the withdrawal of Russian scrap supply from the international market is one of the factors driving scrap price increases in North America, rebar prices in Turkey, non-residential construction costs everywhere etc. etc.

DJ Joseph Scrap Recap

January 7th, 2008 by James Moss in Raw Materials

DJ Joseph puts together a handy summary every month of various data related to ferrous scrap and steel. You can find it on the company’s website under the menu “Industry” and option Scrap Recap. They have monthly data going back to 1997.

Scrap consumption calculations

December 13th, 2007 by James Moss in Raw Materials

This file - Scrap use Calculations - is a little old, but it’s from the Steel Recycling Institute and offers one way of calculating both scrap use and recycled content in steelmaking by both EAF and BOF routes. There are good explanations of scrap terms particularly home, prompt etc.  

Sims & Metal Management Merger Presentation - September, 2007

October 18th, 2007 by James Moss in Consolidation, Raw Materials

More consolidation in the scrap industry. Here’s a nice overview of the acquisition of Metal Management by Sims. It’s a PDF file which will show up here somehow both to read and for download. Sims-Group-Merger-Presentation-Sep2007.pdf

Steel Dynamics Omnisource acquisition

Here are the Steel Dynamics files relating to the Omnisource scrap processor acquisition. There’s a PDF file: SDI-Omnisource and there’s an audio file from the conference call on October 2, 2007.

It’s a full hour: SDI’s OMNISOURCE Acquisition Podcast