Seamless Steel Tube and Pipe Monthly provides unrivalled and unique global market analysis, statistics and price forecasts in all the key markets and products across the seamless steel tube and pipe industry including OCTG, linepipe, boiler pipe and mechanical tubing markets.
It also analyses key developments and prices in the Casing J/K55, API 5CT Casing N80 Q, Casing L80, Linepipe API 5LB, boiler tube and ASTM A519 markets, data on trade flows between exporting countries and major consuming regions and supply & demand analysis on the key markets of Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa and North America.
February 2010 Issue
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17 February 2010
Anti-dumping action aimed at Chinese producers has drastically cut the amount of Chinese material that has found its way into the US market.
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17 February 2010
Latest AISI data indicates that seamless OCTG output continued to climb in November, although they remain around 40% below peak production levels, indicating that there is still plentiful spare capacity late in the fourth quarter.
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17 February 2010
The combination of a weaker euro and higher iron ore and coking coal prices will lead higher steelmaking costs within the eurozone in the near future.
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17 February 2010
The latest figures show a higher than expected jump in December 2009 seamless tube production. The month of December is traditionally a strong month for tube and pipe production, however this year we saw a month on month increase of almost 13%.
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17 February 2010
The weakening in the euro that resulted from the heightened risk of Greece defaulting on its sovereign debt has seen speculators pile into the dollar instead. For at least the last three years a strengthening of the dollar has been accompanied by a fall in commodity prices.
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17 February 2010
US Steel increased its OCTG shipments in Q4 2009 and intends to invest in upgrading tubular operations as part of its strategy to win market share among US shale gas drillers.
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17 February 2010