Stainless Steels Monthly provides concise analysis on all the major worldwide nickel, stainless steel and scrap markets with extensive coverage of issues affecting global trading conditions, including stainless steel long and flat product transaction prices and up-to-date production statistics.
This comprehensive report also includes key data and forecasts for the nickel market with details on premiums, inventories, ferro-nickel pricing and the market balance.
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19 November 2012
Outokumpu’s plan at the start of this year, to acquire Inoxum and, amongst other things, close German stainless steelmaking capacity in the centenary year of the great German invention –austenitic (nickel-containing) stainless was invented there in 1912 - has finally been cleared, at least in principle, by the European Commission.
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30 April 2013
Relatively low base prices in the USA do not augur well for European mills whose own base prices are yet to correct downwards to the same extent.
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30 April 2013
Stainless end use demand is following the same basic path as US manufacturing business activity, continuing to grow but at a slower pace than many would like.
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30 April 2013
Over and above the gloomy headline figures, stainless consumption in Europe, at least on an apparent basis, has been retreating even more quickly.
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30 April 2013
Outside of China the decision by producers to react to the spot market malaise has been damaging.
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30 April 2013
The price of 18-8 solids in Europe has fallen by about $100/tonne to an average of $1,562/tonne while in the USA prices have fallen by less, about $25/tonne, to $1,590/tonne.
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30 April 2013
South African ferrochrome smelters are already set to be hit by an 8% increase in electricity costs from this month and in a couple of months will also be left without the income from Eskom.
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30 April 2013
Roundup of MBR's stainless alloy surcharges, global stainless output statistics, global base/surcharge/transaction price analysis and key month on month trends in regional markets for the month of April 2013
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30 April 2013
Downloadable Excel files with MBR's prices and other stainless steel statistics for the month of April 2013