The CRU Handbook for Steel Billet looks at the global market for billet, including billet demand broken down by global regions from 1996-2007, as well as the global market for merchant billet. Also examined are trade flows of billet, estimates of market size and estimates of merchant billet demand/supply by region.
There is also an analysis of price trends and volatility for steel scrap, long products and billet. Plus, an analytical appendix that includes price series on a monthly basis for scrap, billet, rebar, wire rod, merchant bar and structurals as well as price correlations between billet prices and those for scrap and long products.
Contents
An introduction to the steel industry
· The steelmaking process
· Crude steel
· Semi-finished products
· Finished products
Billet and long products markets
· The global market for reinforcing bar
· The global market for wire rod
· The global market for merchant bar
· The global market for structurals
· The global market for other long products
· The global market for total billet
· The global market for merchant billet
Prices
· CRU price indices
· Recent trends in metallics prices
· Recent trends in finished steel prices as a whole
· Recent trends in long products prices
· Recent trends in billet prices

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