Steel Strip

Competition is the force that drives pricing. Where monopolies exist prices remain high. The astute consumer would be ill advised to buy a new motor car from the first dealer they visited, without first comparing prices and benefits from a range of potential suppliers.

It is the same for consumables and raw materials, which in the [...]

Steelonthenet has just launced an RSS newsfeed on the Russian Steel Industry here.
Meps are forecasting that the current round of steel strip price increases are likely to be the only ones achievable in the EU during 2006, I personally think that some price slippage is possible in the second half of the year. They are [...]

I recently reported on the announced closure of Brinsworth Cold Rolled Strip. Based in Rotherham in South Yorkshire the Brinsworth plant remains as the last vestige of the old Steel Peach and Tozer steelworks that was incorporated in to British Steel Corporation in 1970.
As a fresh faced teenager I started work in the Hot Mill [...]

Reports are circulating that ThyssenKrupp, may be considering selling it’s automotive division ThyssenKrupp Automotive Systems. The automotive division grew out of the downstream acquisitions of major steel component manufacturers.
The company owns plants throughout the world. The automotive division makes components and modules for auto chassis, bodies and powertrains. It generated 49 million euros in earnings [...]