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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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US Carbon Steel Forecast 2009 Presentation

September 16, 2008

NOTE: There’s an updated (for Q4 2008), revised (in Q1 2009) & expanded version of this presentation here:
Here’s a shortened version of a presentation I made last week to the MSCI Economic Summit: Forecast 2009 meeting in Chicago. It’s a great event if you get the chance to go.

The essence of what I [...]

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Scrap or Pig – Iron is Iron

June 18, 2008

It used to be the case that minimills (scrap buyers) and integrated mills (iron ore buyers) had very different cost structures. Integrated steel producers’ costs were relatively fixed because iron ore and coking coal were sold on an annual contract basis and did not change much year to year. Scrap prices on the other hand, [...]

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DJ Joseph Scrap Recap

January 7, 2008

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.

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Scrap consumption calculations

December 13, 2007

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.  

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Steel Dynamics Omnisource acquisition

October 8, 2007

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

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