Nerds of Steel

For those looking for more details on today’s NLMK acquisition of the John Maneely tube operations from Carlyle, Bloomberg has a good piece here. It looks like they paid about $1,665/ton for operations generating about $230/ton of EBITDA. Here are some of the salient details from the Bloomberg article:

In the year ended June 30, John Maneely shipped 2.1 million tons of pipe and had earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization of $485 million, it said. The acquisition is priced at 7.3 times earnings.

John Maneely, which combined with Canada’s Atlas Tube Inc. in December 2006, is based in Beachwood, Ohio. Annual sales were boosted by about $800 million under Carlyle’s ownership, according to the statement. About 80 percent of revenue comes from plumbing and electrical applications used in non- residential construction markets, according to Carlyle’s Web site.

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.

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