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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Below is Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis System (SIMA) data comparing US long products import licenses to actual imports for September and October 2007. November licenses are also listed below, though actuals are not yet available because Department of Commerce actual import data is published 6 weeks after the end of each month. The license data is published weekly on Tuesdays on the SIMA website, and as you can see below, license data published about 2 weeks after the end of each month is a pretty good indicator of actual results. All data below is in short tons.
EditGrid Spreadsheet by user/nerdsofsteel.
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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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Until a few years ago the steel industry was considered mature, and the moniker was accurate. Global steel demand grew more slowly than did the world’s population. In much of the developed world, demand for steel was stagnant after having gone through a long period of decline. Since 1998, however, the steel industry seems to have re-ignited its growth engine and kicked into a new gear. The industry has been growing at 6% annually and most analysts see strong growth continuing for a decade or more. What explains the steel industry’s reemergence and can it continue?
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There’s a very useful Google Maps mashup from MapEcos that uses emissions data from the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory (which has been gathering industrial emissions data from industrial facilities since 1988). You will be asked to enter a name and a zip code on the landing page link above. You can do so or just hit skip it and go to the map. Once the map has booted, enter 3312 in the second search box for the SIC code for steel. All steel facilities in the database will populate the map. Zoom in on any region and then one of the map markers and the TRI data for each facility (along with other information) will show up in the marker’s callout balloon in a series of tabs along the top of the callout.
And here’s the answer to the question “Who developed MapEcos?”: [click to continue…]
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