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First River Steel Data Room Dataset of the Week: US Average Scrap Import Price

August 3, 2021

If you are following steel and raw materials import and export prices, you’ll be interested in this week’s Steel Data Room dataset of the week, “Global Carbon and Alloy Steel Products Imports and Exports”. The dataset has trade data in value, weight and US dollars per tonne from the International Steel Statistics Bureau. It includes […]

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First River Steel Data Room Dataset of the Week: US Coking Coal Consumption and Price

January 25, 2021

If you are following steelmaking raw materials consumption and pricing, you’ll be interested in this week’s featured dataset, “U.S. Coal Statistics” with data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Here you can find US coal reserves, production, employment, trade and pricing information back to 2000. Related to steelmaking, it includes coking coal pricing, consumption, […]

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What to make of Anshan’s investment in the USA – Mk II

June 22, 2010

In late May, I posted an article here called “What to Make of Anshan’s investment in the USA”. It was in reference to the investment by Chinese steelmaker Anshan in John Correnti’s Steel Development Company. The point of my piece was to explore why Anshan might do such a thing. The only real sense I […]

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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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