Steel Storage Plan in Winter

The last month of 2012 is gradually drawing to a close, in the first three quarters of this year, steel prices all the way down to the steel trading business has lost confidence in the market, and even started to give up to save the steel tradition to continue for many years in the winter. However, yesterday's institutions in the industry predict that steel prices next year may per ton rose a few hundred dollars, to 4000 yuan. This can also be considered to be the most optimistic projections of future steel prices. Coupled with the recent steel prices have an upward trend, many Chinese steel traders and renewed enthusiasm.

The steel market in December, giving the feeling of a deviant help, absolutely no traces of common sense out the card, steel prices in the 12 in the coldest month of the year is enthusiasm, macroeconomic policies favorable raw materials market rally supportand peripheral capital markets drive up the various factors such as the impact of steel prices have a relatively objective of growth, but the volume has not been a corresponding increase analysis worried about weak demand in the terminal, the rise of steel prices depend on external influences,with no stability.

But towards the end, continue the favorable policies of steel industry, the steel prices showed signs of warming. Development Research Center of the State Council, Industry Vice Minister Yang Jianlong, 2013, in the Chinese economy run steady trend on the rise, real estate, automotive, infrastructure, electricity and investment will increase.Meanwhile, the export situation will be improved, the new orders index, new export orders index, purchasing volume index continued to rise, the basic consumption of steel inventories reflect the company's activities end.For this, the steel industry has been the basic realization of the process of bottoming out, and 2013 is expected gradual recovery.

The sheet market, the price of the first two ten-day month is mainly a rebound, but in the late early and long products began to enter the shock consolidation period; sheet market hot-rolled, galvanized steel sheet and plate or, rose more than 120 tons, its reasons in addition affected by the favorable impact of the industrial economy continued to pick up, pick-up in manufacturing industry boom driven by the related demand for steel, smooth release of the main factors, plus sheet stock has been in a low, so that inthis winter has characteristics significantly difficult or easy to rise.

Analysts say， the next spring steel prices will certainly rise, so as long as there is a steel trading business should not only make steel storage ，and stocking should as much as possible. However, there are a lot of people think that this does not work, because of the problems of many steel companies have capital chain tension, will bring a lot of risk if a large number of steel storage，therefore， for steel-commerce providers， they should be careful for steel storage in winter.

Steel market situation in China

Recently, the domestic steel spot market to pick up slightly, but the demand side is still a lack of strong support. The performance impact of each macro side fundamentals, China steel prices will be back shock pattern.

According to the monitoring, the domestic spot steel prices being "first growth and stable". Last week, affected by the good news of the macro side, the steel market confidence has been boosted, and steel prices generally rose slightly. However, due to the deep-rooted Steel City "off-season" effect, rising steel prices and lack of demand for support, the price of steel products stabilized again.

According to the analysis, in the sheet market, the overall situation is a sign of strength, reversing a previous downward trend, however, the Wuhan individual market is still slightly dropped. The market analysts believe that the macro data show that the economy has been warmer, the capital market is also strong, which boosted the confidence of the steel market. Steel plate prices with the potential to rise, but "high" shipments rose difficult. The weather is getting cold, the downstream steel enterprises procurement reduce the total demand is weak, or the more obvious. Also the consolidation of hot rolled coil prices stabilized, the dominant trend of the market has been divided, the Shanghai market is basically stable, Tianjin, Beijing and other manifestations of decline. Even up areas, the businessmen's willingness to raise steel prices are still relatively low. At a time when the year-end season, merchants repayment pressure greater surface tension of funds, large-scale "stockpile" phenomenon is unlikely to occur.

In the construction steel market, overall prices were slightly up. However, with the northern part of the region once again snowfall, the downstream demand is further suppressed, the turnover of the steel will be blocked. Think some steel trading business, taking into account the prices of raw materials such as iron ore, steel billets is still strong, the other specifications of the individual market segments less resources, and the bottom of the construction steel market there is still some support for limited downside, in short term, steel prices are still vulnerable fluctuations.

Relevant agencies said that some downstream industries of steel began to exhibit varying degrees of signs of warming, which is more or less conducive to the increase in demand for steel. But it must be remembered, steel prices have been more than a year of decline, businesses lingering fear, more cautious mentality, plus funds face superimposed adjustment factors, the China steel will continue to maintain a weak state.

About Chinese steel industry profits

According to the latest statistics released by the General Administration of Customs, Chinese iron ore imports in November to 65.78 million tons, an increase of 9.35 million tons last month, setting a new high for the year. The face of the dependence of imported iron ore up to 60% of the current situation, "going out" of Chinese steel is becoming increasingly important to develop overseas mining rights. Before the National Development and Reform Commission, the Foreign Investment Department, Deputy Director Wang Jianjun said publicly that will increase policy support and development of enterprises' overseas iron ore development efforts.

Analysts said, In recent years, China's iron and steel industry has entered a period of steady development, the decline in iron ore demand growth, coupled with the rapid growth of the domestic ore imported ore alternative, since 2009 China's ironore imports growth is slowing down, prompting our dependence on imported ore to 60%, but still did not get rid of the fact that this long-standing dependence on imported.

Analysis. The data show that three quarters of the iron and steel industry profits down 84.1%, a decline from the previous quarter expanded 46.8 percent.The response in the industry is mainly concentrated in three areas. First, adjust the structure of the iron ore imports to ease reliance on the traditional three miners. On the other hand, the steel industry from top to bottom all want to compete for iron ore pricing right, the beginning of this year, China launched the iron ore spot trading platform, the iron ore futures are also in the pipeline.

Therefore, in accordance with the current situation, in the last month of 2012, the import and export of all kinds of steel will basically remain stable, such as stainless steel, galvanized steel and galvalume steel production and sales will not be too large fluctuations.

The data show that imported ore, less than 10% of China's mining interests. Steel Association had raised the target, the supply capacity of iron ore concentrate production for 2015 will be the total demand of less than 40% to about 45%; imported overseas iron ore concentrate, China's mining interests in imports the proportion of the total amount will be increased to 50% or more.

So, overall, the development of China's iron and steel space is still very large, especially in overseas expansion, of course, the domestic policy factors also affect the profits of China's steel, and is a critical factor. Because China steel prices advantage in international competition no longer has a dominant position, so only the continuous improvement of technology to improve the technological content of the iron and steel industry and steel, in order to gain advantage in the fierce competition in the status.

Latest China Steel News in 2013

There is no doubt that 2012 is the last ten years, the most difficult year for the China steel industry, whether manufacturers or trading enterprises are facing tremendous pressure. Near the end of the year, the industry is looking forward to the upcoming 2013, however, the steel industry has entered a cyclical correction in the context of slow economic growth, China steel supply and demand will further exacerbate the coming year, the Steel City, I am afraid it is still hard to Sudden Impact.

For the real economy, especially the manufacturing sector ubiquitous overcapacity, big but not strong, domestic consumption, lack of motivation and other issues. China's economy is facing two problems of structural and cyclical adjustment, the GDP growth rate of about 7% to 8% will be the norm in the future.

The IMF and the World Bank have also lowered the global and China's economic growth is expected in the next two years. IMF to China's 2013 growth forecast down to 8.2%, 0.6 percentage points lower than at the beginning, the World Bank cut China's 2013 GDP growth to 8.1% from 8.6% previously expected.

It can be predicted that in 2013, China's economy will maintain slow growth, annual GDP growth rate is expected to be between 7.6% to 8%.

Comparing the 2012 steel suppliers, we can find the steel pipe and steel plate demand are larger, like ERW pipe, seamless pipes, hot rolled steel plate, cold rolled steel, etc. Besides, the steel coil always keeps a balance situation. Of course, for many industries, galvanized steel coil, hot rolled coil, cold rolled coil are playing key role for their production. We can believe these special steel coil will have a bigger supplying and demand.

Based on scale effect, reduce the pursuit of merger risk factors to consider, in recent years, China's steel production capacity is very considerable. According to statistics, this year plans to add 53 blast furnace, iron smelting capacity of about 70000000 tons, crude steel production capacity of 9.3 tons at present; in 2013, plans for additional iron smelting capacity of about 40000000 tons, then China's crude steel production capacity will reach 9.7 tons, 10 tons to close greatly approximation.

Considering the overall poor economic environment, the steel city is difficult to be a fundamental turn for the better, as well as the steel profit difficulties and other factors, the release of production capacity will be affected certainly, is expected in 2013 crude steel production in 7.3 tons ~7.4 tons, increase than 2012 2%~3%.

Since this year, domestic iron ore production capacity output grows steadily. ~9 in January, China's iron ore production reached 9.7 tons, grow 16.6% compared to the same period, predicting annual is expected to reach 15 tons. According to incomplete statistics, China new ore production capacity of more than 4.5 tons, and for many large mining projects, and belongs to the national or the local government encourages project, production capacity will be smooth release. Foreign mines, three mines in the vale of nearly 1 tons of capacity planning completed and put into production in 2013, Rio Tinto plans in 2013 production capacity reached 2 tons.

Based on the above analysis, the China steel industry overcapacity in the illness has reached the adjustment not stage, is expected next year, the main varieties of average steel prices will drop further down, the main varieties in 5% the left and right sides, low will be lower than this year, this year the high and flat or slightly low, whole year or emerged after the former high-low trend.

Affected by the relationship between supply and demand

Affected by the relationship between supply and demand, the steel prices always present fluctuation trends. Especially, in today's economic instability period, the price of steel shows more performance out of a lot of variables. China is a big country of the world's steel production and consumption, the situation of China Steel will have a big affect on world’s steel products and steel prices. The below will give some useful guide about top 5 steel products from China, It will help you to better predict the status quo of China's steel.

Angle Iron

Angle iron is a special angle steel, according to its features, the using of angle iron is very extensive. For example, it can be widely used in building structures and engineering structures. If you want to build a factory, build a new bridge, especially, construction of transmission towers, the angle iron plays so important role. In general, the angle steel can be divided into equal angles and unequal angles, which they have a wide range of uses.

Galvanized Steel Coil

We all know that galvanized steel coil has a great consumption in the world. Firstly, because steel coil is rendered as roll, it is so conveniently for storage and transportation. From a processing standpoint, the coil can easily perform various processing, such as it can be processed into a plate, strip, etc. Of course, galvanized steel coil, which has better performances than general coil, can be used with high-level requirements field, like shipbuilding, automobile manufacturing, made ​​the trains, the rail, a house built of reinforced-made steel bridge, etc.

Cold rolled coil

Comparing to hot rolled coil, cold rolled coil has superior mechanical properties, like cold rolled coil is more precise thickness, and the surface is smooth and beautiful. Because Cold rolled steel is steel after cold rolling production, original volume is relatively brittle and hard, and is not suitable for processing, usually cold rolled steel requirements before you can use after after annealing, pickling and smooth surface.

Galvanized steel sheet

The steel sheet is a plate-shaped steel, the kind of steel sheet is so many, With the development of science and technology and industrial materials, steel sheet put forward higher requirements, higher strength, resistance to high temperature, high pressure, low temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, wear and tear, as well as other special physical and chemical properties of the request, and so on. Especially, galvanized steel sheet has much better performances, now more and more fields begin to use it.

ERW pipe

ERW pipe is shorten from Electric Resistance Welding, this pipe plays a very important role in steel pipe of the world. Overall speaking, ERW Pipe can be used as agricultural irrigation, urban construction, and for the transport of liquids: water supply and drainage. For gas delivery with: gas, steam, liquefied petroleum gas. Used for structure: for piling pipe for bridges; piers, roads, buildings, structures with tubes. Especially, ERW pipe can be used to transport oil, natural gas and other vapor-liquid objects, to meet the high requirements of low pressure, occupies a pivotal position in the field of conveyor tube in the world.

Generally speaking, the above several steel products has a very wide using area, owing to different demand, we can choose the proper steel products, comparing to other counties steel, China steel has a greater advantage, specially, the steel prices can be proper.

Chinese steel prices have fallen

Now it is the season to wear thick clothes. Scarlet sweater turned out, down jacket turned out, collar turned out, a lot of clothing inventory, but the grass is always greener is human nature, so a bunch of clothes did not bring me much of a surprise, this feels like the recent China steel market, the stock decline in both, but the surprise was general merchants like.

Bad weather, the number of downstream construction will be blocked, the steel market demand will weaken, businesses Dongchu idea and hesitant, in this case, the week before the steel stocks rose for the first time after the National Day, but justone week only, until last weekend, the domestic steel stocks have once again returned to the downstream channel. According to statistics, as of November 23, the social inventory of the country's 26 major markets five varieties of steel (rebar, wire rod, hot rolled coils, cold rolled coils) to 11.927 million tons, compared with the previous week, dropped by 16.5 tons, total inventory hit the lowest level since December 2009; (November 25, 2011), compared with the same period last year, the total inventory decreased to 1.209 million tons, the first decline in five weeks zoom.

In previous years, this time inventory decline is quite normal, but in the case of steel production to continue to enlarge the market demand and a marked decline in this year, stocks are still down, which was a bit surprised, but has not reached the degree of surprise. Stock decline, which means that the recent merchants who would be no pressure on the stock, this week is the last week of November, slightly ease the pressure on the stock for the toss funding problems, irritability down businesses, can be considered a little comfort, but will not have to do this joy.

We believe that the domestic steel stocks slipped last week, with the iron ore market inventory decline are not unrelated. As far as we know, the domestic steel stocks declined, while last week, iron ore stocks have also experienced a decline, and also has four consecutive weeks of decline. According to statistics, as of November 23, 2012, the 30 major ports in the country's total iron ore stocks at 82.63 million tons, a decrease of 2.68 million tons compared with the previous week, declining for four consecutive weeks. Compared with the same period last year (November 25, 2011), the total inventory reduction of 14.7 million tons, a year-on-year decline to continue to expand. View from iron ore sources, last week, the three major sources of imports for stocks to continue across the board decline in Brazilian ore to reduce still up, a decrease of 1.52 million tons compared with the previous week, a decrease of 40,000 tons and 250,000 tons respectively in Australia and India mine.

With the arrival of winter, the reduced demand for steel, the late steel mills may be forced to cut production behavior, which will directly affect the demand for iron ore. There may be a lot of people think that the steel industry profit margins, steel mills, how willing to cut it, but It is understood that China's iron and steel industry had the most difficult time of the year, the industry as a whole has improved in net investment income and steel Association member companies in mid-October is still a loss, so the steel industry in order to thoroughly losses still very difficult, so even if the steel mills want to continue to increase, attitudes also appear hesitant.

The recent downward pressure of domestic steel prices are increasing, and indirectly led to the price of iron ore are into the downstream channel. Perhaps it was taking into account these factors, a decrease in supply of iron ore, the stock began to slowly decline. On the other hand, the supply and demand pressures, many large enterprises have continued to cut production of behavior, steel procurement is more hesitant, so the whole steel inventory is not a big pressure, not urging businesses to fill inventory, and that makes the recent steel City's stock decline.

On the whole, China steel prices and iron ore stocks tumble, however, for the business, how to open the demand is the real key, the inventory decline of course, will ease the pressure of the business, but the difference in demandbefore, businesses are difficult to real joy.

This Year Steel Plate Market Will Get Better

Recently, Baosteel raised the ex-factory price . Including hot rolled steel plate, ordinary cold plate prices up 100 yuan / ton, pickling plate, hot galvanized plate prices by 80 yuan / ton, aluminum zinc plate prices by 120 yuan / ton, non-oriented electrical steel prices by 50 yuan / ton to 150 yuan / ton. Upward, the conventional specifications 1.0mm × 1250mm cold rolled coils (SPCC) listed price of 4356 yuan / ton (excluding tax, the same below), 5.5mm x 1500mm (SS400) table columns of hot rolled coil price 4062 yuan / ton, 3.0mm × 1250mm (SPHC) hot rolled coil listed price of 4312 yuan / ton. This is Baosteel following raised prices in March, the second time this year to the ex-factory price upregulation. Known as Steel City "benchmark," said ex-factory price of Baosteel round up, add a lot of confidence to the steel trading business.

Part of the plate metal traders said Baosteel round up prices in December expected. The overall increase, led by the ex-factory price of Baosteel and other large steel enterprises, the market sheet plate price during the year will continue steadily.

Recently, the steel plate market performance was significantly stronger than the long products, especially the strong market performance of hot-rolled coil. Compared to early September, the national average price of hot-rolled coil has risen to 750 yuan / ton, which price rises in October, November, about 300 yuan / ton. The Baosteel prices up disk appearance, to further promote the spot market price to rise. On November 12, the Shanghai market hot-rolled coil prices continued to rise, up 30 yuan / ton to 90 yuan / ton; cold rolled Hangzhou, Tianjin, Beijing, Guangzhou and other market prices are generally rising.

Steel supply side, this year, the last remaining more than a month into the maintenance period, a lot of steel mills, plate production rhythm slowed down, no significant increase in production. According to the situation of the steel trading business feedback, recently, the small number of steel hot rolled coil market resources, there are a lot of hot rolled coil steel mills for nearly two months did not enter the domestic distribution market, but a large number of for export. The early domestic sheet products exports maintained a high level, coupled with the increase in exports of its deep processing varieties, and to some extent alleviate the pressure on the supply of the domestic market. Nowadays, the hot rolled coil market in Shanghai, Hangzhou and other available resources generally tight, some even serious shortage, businesses offer substantial pull-up. According to the survey, in November, the major domestic steel hot-rolled coil plan to invest the amount of commodities to 800 million tons, cold rolled coil plan to invest the amount of commodities to 16.05 million tons, essentially flat with October. This helps ease the contradiction between supply and demand, and stabilize the market price. In short, the current sheet resources scarce, there is not enough resources to supplement and, in a certain period of time, in the case of rigid demand did not significantly reduce the prices may also continue upward.

China steel import and export toward the off-season

The weather turns cold , everyone a languid look , site procurement also reduces a lot of demand for steel has been shrinking . And Dongchu steel suppliers trading business this year , the enthusiasm was generally weak, Steel City, the turnover has been feeling kind of bad to worse . Most people felt steel seasonal consumption in the off-season is gradually coming , therefore , wait and see on the market is a more intense atmosphere .

According to China Customs Express data shows , China 's exports of steel and iron ore imports qoq decline in both October . The data show that in steel exports in October were exported 4.84 million tons of steel ring decreased by 31 million tons compared with 5.15 million tons in September , a decline of 0.6 % year-on-year increase of 26.7% . January-October total exports of 45.78 million tons of steel , a year - on - year increase of 11.8% . The data also showed that 10 months of imports of 1.03 million tons of steel , a decrease of 170,000 tons , a decline of 14.2 % . Steel imports in January-October total of 11.55 million tons , down 12.2% , only lasted only a month , was forced to reverse a good situation for steel exports .

We believe that the decrease in exports of steel impact will be concentrated on the merchant mentality, but this is relative to the previous years, because in the previous years, see the decrease in exports of steel, the business mind may be turned pessimistic, but this yearthe eighteen major convene let the steel trading business, they held their breath waiting for favorable policies, the decrease in exports of China steel also let businesses hesitation, but the main thought of the steel trading business is still concentrated in the 18th Party Congress, therefore, it is estimatedthe recent steel price not yet have greater fluctuation.

However, in addition to weakening steel export data, iron ore imports in October also fell. According to statistics, in October China's imports of iron ore 56.43 million tons, ring than in September, down 13.2% year-on-year increase of 12.99%, 1-October cumulative imports of 607 million tons, an increase of 8.9%. From the iron ore import prices, the unit price of imports in October was 104.9 U.S. dollars / ton, a decline of 9.5%, year-on-year decline of up to 40.2% in January-October total import price of 132.3 U.S. dollars / ton, down 20.6%. Iron ore imports decline, which we expected.

As for the demand side, the weaker downstream demand for building materials has been more obvious, because from the inventories of view, as of last week, threaded stock or increase by 0.6% in the previous week; wire by 0.5% from 1.155 million tons, the formerweek by 1.1%;, we believe that this is mainly with the recent cold weather, the northern site stoppages phenomenon increased downstream procurement weak, causing building materials stocks soared to. But overall, the total domestic steel stocks last week but still keep the decline in state of affairs, because in addition to the thread, wire, other varieties of stocks have continued to decline. Hot rolled steel 3.148 million tons down 3.4%, down 2.9% in the previous week; cold rolled steel down 1.0% from 1.601 million tons, down 0.5% in the previous week; plate down 7.0% from 1.287 million tons, down 2.1% in the previous week. Inventory overall downward trend supporting the business mentality is not much fluctuation, and in steel city light atmosphere of turnover, the recent ore, coke prices remain steady rise, the cost of supporting a strong, even for the strong need the weak, but inventory levels are still relatively low, so steel prices will continue to maintain the original pattern difficult to have large fluctuations.

Steel of opportunities and challenges in "Low-profit era"

After 10 consecutive years of rapid development, the operating profit is inevitable in the Chinese steel industry upgrade process and must bear. 21st century, 10 years, is a complete restructuring and development of China's steel industry, iron and steel power second leap.

Comprehensive analysis of the current domestic and international situation, China is facing unprecedented opportunities, but also the face of unprecedented challenges, China's development is still in an important period of strategic opportunities that can accomplish a great deal.

Looking to the future, both from the domestic and international macroeconomic trends, point of view or from the self-development of the steel industry, we need a broader perspective to look at the development of the iron and steel industry.

At present, the global economic environment has undergone great changes. The aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008 is not level, the European debt crisis was underway, the global economy will enter a long period of slow growth. China may face the situation of a fairly long period of slow growth in exports, which will bring the domestic export industries, including China steel and downstream industries have a significant impact. Of particular importance is that the financial crisis is changing the structure of global economic growth, the major developed countries have to revive the manufacturing industry and to expand export policy, China's manufacturing industry is facing the dual pressures of developed countries extrusion and emerging economies catch up, the domestic corporate restructuring and upgrading to more urgent demands. At the same time, however, has not yet completed the industrialization and urbanization will continue for the Chinese economy continued growth momentum is still evident, the international competitiveness of "Made in China", China is still in an important period of strategic opportunities.

In recent years, the "low-profit era" had become a hot word of the iron and steel industry. Iron and steel industry in peril declining, seems like a foregone conclusion. Since September last year, the domestic steel industry into the winter. To August this year, the domestic iron and steel enterprises, or operating profit fend for themselves, or in the gain or loss on the edge of survival.Steel industry after nearly 10 years of rapid development, the supply and demand relationship reversed, already one foot into the inflection point from the "demand" to "oversupply". On the one hand overcapacity intensifies, even the one hand, demand growth is slowing down. Therefore, China steel prices have no advantage in quality and technology, the next step should be up to improve and increase the technology content.

It is understood that, in the good news to stimulate the Anshan markets hot rolled coils prices overall rose in the range of 30-100 yuan / ton between turnover situation has improved, according to feedback Angang, Benxi Iron and Steel production 3.0 * 1250mm hot rolling open flatmainstream offer 3420-3450 yuan / ton, the various varieties and specifications are different rose.

Generally speaking, the transformation of China's iron and steel industry is a business model innovation, technological innovation is the iron and steel enterprises to achieve important support for the restructuring and development conditions. The Baosteel innovation as a foothold in enterprise restructuring and development, adhere to technological innovation as an important means for the implementation of the "the boutique strategic" and "environmental management. We want to speed up the construction of the innovation system, promote the new product development, engineering technology independent integration "and" live "three innovative system of continuous improvement. Future gathering resources research new technologies, develop new products and to optimize the protection mechanism of technological innovation, to create a better atmosphere and the mechanisms of corporate innovation.

The Latest Steel News Reviews from China

Due to the impact of the 2008 financial crisis, by certain obstacles to the economic development of the world, but from a global point of view, the economy is slowly getting better, most people are quite optimistic. Various countries have introduced a related program to stimulate economic development, increase investment in national infrastructure, to increase employment, help people to increase confidence in the economic recovery. Especially in Australia, Europe, and Asia. Therefore, the from steel demand side, demand of steel suppliers is still relatively large, but in the supply price might be relatively large fluctuations.

Terms of supply and price of Chinese steel, China steel import and export is still relatively active, although experienced several relatively large price fluctuations, the sudden appearance of the highest price, suddenly steel prices fell to a minimum value, but from now appears that the supply-demand relationship, or basically stabilized. Below to illustrate further, you will get more options to buy steel or more partners from different steel characteristics, based on the following information.

First of all, about features of galvanized steel, provide you with some introduction to help you better understand the characteristics of the galvanized steel. The galvanized steel applicable range of the welding parameters is small, due to the contact surface of low resistivity, low hardness, the low melting point of the zinc layer, so that the contact resistance is reduced, the current uneven field distribution, affect the formation and size of the nugget. Shorten the electrode life, due to the low melting point of zinc layer, the surface easy burning, alloy the contamination electrode formed on the electrode surface, easy to overheat and distort, reduce electrode life. Prone to welding splashes, affect the stability of the solder joint quality.

As far as the production and supply of galvanized steel, with the development of the domestic economy, especially in the automotive, appliance and construction industries, the demand for galvanized steel is greatly increased. And in the process, equipment, due to the continuous improvement of the technical level, has been made in the development of product variety. Of course, came out to meet the needs of China's economic construction and development, many Chinese steel mills have increased the intensity of the export, but also on product quality and price, compared to other countries of similar products and more advantage, so it has got the favorite of many countries, such as galvanized steel coil, cold rolled steel, hot rolled coil, etc.

Secondly, it is about angle iron, angle steel demand is very big, because it has features other steel products, angle iron applications is very wide, such as widely used in various building structures and engineering structures, such as beams, bridges, transmission tower, hoisting and transport machinery, ships, industrial furnace, reaction tower, container frame and warehouse shelves, etc.

For China's the angle iron supply and demand relationship for Chinese imports, exports Angle each a certain volume, mainly imported from Japan, and Western Europe. Exporting region is mainly to Hong Kong, Macao, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Arab countries. Export production enterprise mainly for the steel plant in Liaoning, Hebei, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and other provinces and cities (rolling mills).

Of course, the above is a general instruction about different Chinese steel, Because China is regarded as a steel resource rich countries, and has a lot of advantages in steel production technology, so the steel price is quite reasonable to be accepted by many countries, Therefore, the procurement of steel from China is also a very good choice for lots of foreign enterprises, according to China's current policy, they can also get a lot of favorable conditions.

Top 5 Steel Products From China

Affected by the relationship between supply and demand, the steel prices always present fluctuation trends. Especially, in today's economic instability period, the price of steel shows more performance out of a lot of variables. China is a big country of the world's steel production and consumption, the situation of China Steel will have a big affect on world’s steel products and steel prices. The below will give some useful guide about top 5 steel products from China, It will help you to better predict the status quo of China's steel.

Angle Iron

Angle iron is a special angle steel, according to its features, the using of angle iron is very extensive. For example, it can be widely used in building structures and engineering structures. If you want to build a factory, build a new bridge, especially, construction of transmission towers, the angle iron plays so important role. In general, the angle steel can be divided into equal angles and unequal angles, which they have a wide range of uses.

Galvanized Steel Coil

We all know that galvanized steel coil has a great consumption in the world. Firstly, because steel coil is rendered as roll, it is so conveniently for storage and transportation. From a processing standpoint, the coil can easily perform various processing, such as it can be processed into a plate, strip, etc. Of course, galvanized steel coil, which has better performances than general coil, can be used with high-level requirements field, like shipbuilding, automobile manufacturing, made ​​the trains, the rail, a house built of reinforced-made steel bridge, etc.

Cold rolled coil

Comparing to hot rolled coil, cold rolled coil has superior mechanical properties, like cold rolled coil is more precise thickness, and the surface is smooth and beautiful. Because Cold rolled steel is steel after cold rolling production, original volume is relatively brittle and hard, and is not suitable for processing, usually cold rolled steel requirements before you can use after after annealing, pickling and smooth surface. 

Galvanized steel sheet

The steel sheet is a plate-shaped steel, the kind of steel sheet is so many, With the development of science and technology and industrial materials, steel sheet put forward higher requirements, higher strength, resistance to high temperature, high pressure, low temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, wear and tear, as well as other special physical and chemical properties of the request, and so on. Especially, galvanized steel sheet has much better performances, now more and more fields begin to use it.

ERW pipe

ERW pipe is shorten from Electric Resistance Welding, this pipe plays a very important role in steel pipe of the world. Overall speaking, ERW Pipe can be used as agricultural irrigation, urban construction, and for the transport of liquids: water supply and drainage. For gas delivery with: gas, steam, liquefied petroleum gas. Used for structure: for piling pipe for bridges; piers, roads, buildings, structures with tubes. Especially, ERW pipe can be used to transport oil, natural gas and other vapor-liquid objects, to meet the high requirements of low pressure, occupies a pivotal position in the field of conveyor tube in the world.

Generally speaking, the above several steel products has a very wide using area, owing to different demand, we can choose the proper steel products, comparing to other counties steel, China steel has a greater advantage, specially, the steel prices can be proper.

Different Kinds of Steel Products and Steel Prices

It is known that steel is widely used in many different areas, and it contains all kinds of different types. Generally, depending on the cross sectional shape, the steel can be divided into four main categories of profiles, steel sheets, steel tubes, and metal products. Of course, every big category can own several different small categories, and the related steel prices is not the same. Most the processing of steel belongs to pressure processing, which can make steel produce plastic deformation. According to the processing temperature of steel can be divided into two kinds of cold and hot processing.

Steel is an iron-carbon alloy which contains carbon between 0.04%-2.3%. The chemical composition of steel is so different, if the steel can only contain carbon steel known as carbon steel, in the actual production, in order to ensure its toughness and ductility, the carbon content is generally not more than 1.7%. And the main elements of steel except iron and carbon, it contains silicon, manganese, sulfur, phosphorus, etc.

The next, there are some introductions about several normal steel products, including steel plate, steel coil, galvanized steel,  steel pipe, etc.

Steel Plate

Steel plate is with molten steel pouring and pressed flat-shaped steel after cooling. According to different rolling ways, steel plate can be divided into hot-rolled and cold-rolled. Generally, steel plate can used as bridge plate, boiler plate, automobile manufacturing plate, etc. And hot rolled steel plate is a very big application in the industry, which is produced by hot rolling.

Steel Coil

Steel coil, is also known as rolled steel, which is can be produced by steel hot or cold pressing. In order to facilitate storage and transport, steel coil usually can be processed plate or strip, etc. Steel coil is divided into hot rolled coil and cold rolled coil, and the hot rolled coil is processing products which is in the front of the billet recrystallization, and cold rolled is subsequent processing after hot-rolled-coil. In order to enhance the resistance to corrosion of steel, you can use galvanized steel coil.

Steel Pipe

Steel pipe can be divided into two categories, including seamless pipe and welded steel pipe. Usually, seamless pipes are made of high quality carbon steel and use two different ways to produce: hot rolled and cold rolled. Welded steel pipe is rolled into a tubular steel plate on the seam or spiral seam welded. Weld steel pipes can be used for water pipelines, gas pipes, heating pipes, electrical pipes, etc.

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