STEEL REPORTS & PUBLICATIONS

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We produce a family of monthly, quarterly and annual reports focusing on all the important issues in the international steel scene. New features have been added  - including steel price forecasts. These have been designed to provide extra information to enable us to continue to supply the most up to date, reliable and independent analysis of the steel sector worldwide.

MONTHLY REVIEWS

These are in the form of short but detailed reports for easy presentation. Each issue is prepared from "in depth" research into market conditions and price trends in the relevant region under investigation. We undertake extensive discussions with end-users, service centres and steel traders actively operating in the market for each product category. The data collected is analysed and evaluated for presentation in a coherent format useful to our clients. We pride ourselves on being the world leader in the provision of accurate steel price information.

Tables are published showing high and low prices for the most popular product categories and grades. These values are acknowledged as the benchmark for pricing in each country. They are used by steel consumers in a wide range of manufacturing and construction sectors. Our clients also include steel processors, traders, stockholders and steel mills, to obtain an accurate but independent viewpoint of both local and foreign markets. In addition, these reports are utilised by industry analysts, bankers and government departments to keep abreast of current trends within the sector.

Each monthly review incorporates narrative, highlighting the important tendencies on supply, demand and price. These comments are an extremely useful adjunct to the main price tables to enable our clients to understand the likely market trends. Finally, these regular reports are often used as the reference for price agreements between customers and mills. We know that well over one million tonnes of steel is purchased using the MEPS values as the index for price movements.

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QUARTERLY REPORTS WORLD STEEL OUTLOOK Crude steel and pig iron production forecasts are made for forty of the top steel producing nations. Also included is detailed analysis and future trends for quarterly output of the ten main rolled steel products (Hot Rolled Coil, Hot Rolled Plate, Cold Rolled Sheet, Coated Sheet, Wire Rod, Sections and Beams, Rebar and Merchant Bar) in the US, Canada, Brazil, EU, China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan.  From trade data we are also able to prepare apparent consumption estimates. ANNUAL REPORTS GLOBAL IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTION TO 2013 This annual report is a five year outlook on the global steel scene. We assess the latest steel consumption figures. Using these, and our knowledge of market trends, we then estimate the likely short term production in the top fifty six producing countries worldwide. Longer term predictions are made from an analysis of economic tendencies and cycles within the steel markets in different parts of the world.