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Profile of the German Steel Industry in 2009

July 7, 2009

The German Steel Federation (VDEh) is one of the best sources of information about its national steel industry (and lots of others too) anywhere in the world. Take for instance, this excellent recent profile of the German Steel Industry (in PDF) by Herr Dr-Ing Carl-Dieter Wuppermann. If you send them to us, we’ll be happy [...]

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World crude steel production slips 3% in April

May 21, 2009

The World Steel Association published the latest global crude steel production data yesterday. It’s now in the Nerds crude steel production spreadsheet below. The data (which as mentioned previously) are often significantly revised in later bulletins show a 3% decline month to month from March to April and 24% decline year on year 2008 to [...]

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European steel production and demand forecast 2009

February 6, 2009

We’re not a forecasting firm, we’re strategy consultants. But lately macroeconomic developments are at the forefront of everyone’s mind, for obvious reasons. So we’ve endeavored to keep you abreast of the latest forecasts and what they might mean for steel production and demand.  In this vein, I received the following question yesterday from one of [...]

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Where to get European scrap price data

January 19, 2009

A Nerds of Steel reader in Australia wrote recently to ask where to find Turkish scrap prices. As we’re always trying to accelerate readers research and reduce their costs, I am following up with information on good sources of European scrap prices. Subscribers to Steel Business Briefing and Metal Bulletin can find European scrap prices [...]

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GDP and steel demand in Europe

November 23, 2008

In response to a presentation I posted recently on this blog, I received the following questions from an investment firm based in Switzerland. 1) Is your indicated correlation also applicable to Europe only, i.e. could it be used to forecast steel demand in Europe? 2) Europe is expected to grow below 2,5% real GDP for [...]

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ThyssenKrupp’s ‘clean’ Blast Furnace in Duisburg

February 11, 2008

And on the subject of ThyssenKrupp, here’s a short video from DeutscheWelle (in English) describing the start up of the ThyssenKrupp number 8 blast furnace in Duisburg.

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ThyssenKrupp company profile, October 2007

February 5, 2008

In the continuing NoS series of gathering profiles of some of the largest steel companies in the world, here’s an extremely comprehensive profile of ThyssenKrupp Steel made by the company itself in October of 2007. There are details of the parent corporation, but much more detailed information about the two main steelmaking groups, carbon & [...]

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Steel Business Briefing Videos on YouTube

December 20, 2007

Those nice people at SBB have posted a few videos on YouTube under the name steelvids. The first video features former colleague Steve Randall explaining his Steel Index price product. Enjoy.

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