Welcome to Nerds of Steel. Have a good look round. This post will tell you about a few of the things you can do on and with the site and how you can do them. It’s written for the many who have no experience of blogs, so, if you’re an old hand, be patient.
Nerds of Steel (or NoS) is a website structured in the form of a blog – short for weblog. A blog is basically a way to manage and organize content in a website efficiently. It’s easy for us to post, link, and add different media formats including spreadsheets, presentations, PDF files, audio and video files. And it’s easy for you to read, watch and listen to posts, download files, receive posts via a reader (see below) or via email; share them with other people who you think would be interested (click the Share This link under any post) and search for specific things you’re interested in. If you sign in (for free), you can also comment on posts and access more data on the data page. [click to continue…]
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.
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.
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.
Here’s BlueScope’s detailed description of the what they just acquired from Ternium. Follow the link below and download the original from the link on the righthand side of the page.
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?
