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World apparent steel use revised downward in April 2012 Short Range Outlook

May 8, 2012

worldsteel‘s forecast for growth in world apparent steel use in 2012 was revised downward from 5.4% in October 2011’s Short Range Outlook to 3.6% in April 2012’s Short Range Outlook published recently. Driving the change in the forecast is worldsteel’s estimate that China’s steel use will grow by 4.0% in 2012 instead of by 6%. […]

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World apparent steel use revised upward in wsa’s Short Range Outlook

October 26, 2011

worldsteel‘s forecast for growth in world apparent steel use in 2011 was revised upward from 5.9% in April’s Short Range Outlook to 6.5% in October’s Short Range Outlook published recently. worldsteel expects world apparent steel use to reach 1,398 million metric tonnes in 2011 (instead of April’s forecast of 1,359 m tonnes) and 1,473 m […]

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“The sky is falling, should we run for it?”

January 23, 2009

On January 21, I appeared on a steel outlook panel at the inaugural AMM State of Steel conference in NY.  My presentation, “The sky is falling, should we run for it,” appears below.  The main point I made was that while 2009 will be a very difficult year, we should not be surprised that steel […]

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