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Forecast 2010 record steel consumption leaves developed world behind

April 21, 2010

Along with its global monthly steel production figures, worldsteel also published yesterday its collective wisdom about forecast Apparent Steel Use (ASU) by country through 2011. This is the ‘Short Range Outlook.’ The current forecast (data in the Nerds spreadsheet below) shows about an 11% rise in demand in 2010 to 1.24Bn metric tonnes with a […]

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US long products imports climb 27% in February

March 16, 2010

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports climbed 27% from 166,000 short tons in January to 210,000 tons in February. Long products imports in February 2009 were 115,000 tons and in February 2008 they were 330,000 tons. Wire rod and rebar showed the biggest gains. Wire rod imports in February were 38,000 tons […]

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US steel mill utilization once again at 70%

March 15, 2010

For the first time since the week ending October 25th 2008, US steel mill utilization is above 70% according to data for the week ending March 13th, 2010 released today by the AISI. The progress of weekly utilization since August of 2008 is shown in the chart below:   There are two charts on the […]

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US flat products imports climb 6% in February

March 10, 2010

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports increased 6% from 432,000 short tons in January to 456,000 tons in February. This can be compared to 548,000 tons of flat products imports in February 2009. Hot rolled imports showed the highest import volume gain by rising 20,000 tons in February while cut plate had […]

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World crude steel production rises 25% year on year – January 2010

February 22, 2010

At least that’s the headline from worldsteel which published world crude steel production data for January today. Of course that’s a rise of 25% comparing January 2010 to January 2009. The press release is here and you can mess about with all the data in the Nerds spreadsheet below. The more interesting analysis is likely […]

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US long products imports drop 47% in November

December 17, 2009

Based on reported import licenses and as predicted in my earlier post, US long products imports declined 47% from 210,000 short tons in October to 112,000 tons in November. November 2008 long products imports were 173,000 tons. While imports of merchant bar were flat, imports of all other products decreased each by over 30%. The […]

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