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An understanding of steel prices can be an important factor in company
profitability for users, producers and distributors. Information
points in the cycle can be critical.
Subscription to MEPS newsletters keeps you abreast of current and
future pricing issues and put you ahead of the game.
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.
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
2011
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. |
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