The Latest China Steel Information

The last day before the holiday, the nation's major market steel prices unexpectedly comprehensive stabilize run, the market mentality is basically in a peaceful state. According to market monitoring: As of the close, the average price of 25mm rebar 3614 yuan, down 20 yuan from last Friday; 6.5mm high line average 3564 yuan or 16 yuan; 5.5mm hot-rolled average price of 3,710 yuan, down 37 ; 1.0mm cold-rolled average price of 4,807 yuan, down 24 yuan; 20mm plate average price of 3,754 yuan, down 26 yuan.

This week, the domestic stock market fell nearly 3%, steel futures prices fell more than 2%, leading to poor market sentiment. Despite the recent market turnover situation has obviously improved, according to statistics the country's 29 major cities in construction steel, hot-rolled coil, cold rolled coil, plate the total inventory on the decline, but still high inventory levels of all varieties, businesses pressure is still large, strong willingness to return the funds by demand season, pay close attention to the shipping, very price and even pull up the price of power shortage. Short term, although shipments will continue to be maintained at a high level, 51 postganglionic stock will continue to decline, but the premise of the high-yield, for the subsequent arrival of resources concerns, a single from the spot market level, it is difficult to pull prices rebounded significantly. Poor economic conditions, unless the country has a more powerful stimulus policies we mentioned before, Hebei began efforts to cut one-third of steel production capacity policy implementation, the steel market will have a turning point.

This week, the the prices of sheet metal market of domestic continue to slightly lower, especially is the hot rolled steel plate volume Product Price, the of its financial property is the strongest, to follow the steel futures, the trend of the in the long-term electronic disk Price is the more obvious, decline is also of the relatively large. But the all over the, of all varieties sheet metal decline in the prices of compared to with the last few weeks has been distinctly narrowed from the, This with the that have a great relationship on the the heavy volume of of the demand. Week of hot-rolled coil, cold rolled coil, plate stock declined.

Labour Day, the overall level of demand is still expected to continue to enlarge the sales of businesses still remain at a high level. But now higher than the same period last year about 20% of the inventory levels, the formation of a greater pressure on the dealer, so that the price level is difficult to significantly improved. However, if the domestic stock market, steel futures market prices after the holiday can rebound, the stock market there may be some improvement. In a two-day weekend, the domestic stock market, steel futures, electronic trading are not opening, the all varieties spot steel prices have remained stable. But greater impact on of the steel billet Price the trend of the spot price goes low continuously in the weekend two days, the two days of the cumulative decline in reached 40 yuan, As of press, the Tangshan region Carbon 150 billet Price for the 3.16 thousand yuan, reached a the the lowest level in in the this year after the Spring Festival. From the billet market trend during the holiday season, the Festival steel spot market is still not optimistic. The domestic steel market wants to get rid of the dilemma, but also the national macro-stimulus force to appear. There is also a way out is the the domestic steel mills be able to take the initiative to of the. These two from the the the the current signs of point of view, the short-term within the both the difficult to achieve. However, there are a little might be interested in the latter part of the market trend the formation of the policy of the important influence in the we need to focus. Recent media reports, Hebei will be a 1/3 cut in steel production capacity. Mainly is out of to the environmental considerations, the use of the environmental protection means to achieve the abatement of the steel production capacity. In in 2012, the Hebei crude steel production 1.8 billion tons, the average monthly 15 million tons, minus 1/3 is the 5 million t. We need to focus efforts in May this policy implemented and the specific implementation, if you really can have this amount, the market will change, the market price may rise significantly.

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.

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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