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Steel Data Room: US shredded steel scrap exports volatile with prices rising to US$440/mt in October

January 4, 2022

While US steelmaker scrap company acquisitions are in the news, you may be interested in scrap export data available in the Steel Data Room coming from the US Census Bureau’s USA Trade Online. The Data Room holds all US import and export trade data monthly in quantity and value by export district for all the […]

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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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China ferrous scrap growth

August 3, 2017

                            The generation and disposition of Chinese ferrous scrap is going to be one of the most important and dynamic factors in the Asian and wider steel industry development over the next decade. We’re interested in any information or analysis that will […]

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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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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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