CRU’s Stainless Steel Flat Products Quarterly report analyses recent trends in market fundamentals and presents five year forecasts of production, consumption, capacity developments and utilisation rates, and prices.
The Quarterly Report provides you with five-year forecasts of:
- Stainless steel cold rolled and hot rolled flat product apparent consumption by region and major country
- Stainless steel slab melting, hot anneal and pickling and cold rolling capacity by company and major plant
- Stainless steel cold rolled and hot rolled flat product shipments and net trade by region and major country
- Stainless steel CR304, CR430, CMP304 and PMP304 conversion margins
- Base price and alloy surcharge forecasts based on capacity utilisation rates and raw material prices in Europe, USA, Japan and Hong Kong
Quarterly updates
The CRU Stainless Steel Flat Products Quarterly: Industry and Market Outlook is published in February, May, August and November. Each quarterly report will provide you with comprehensive global coverage of the stainless steel industry.
Expert analysis and advice
The authors, who include industry experts, economists and metallurgists, can help you keep abreast of new developments. The fee for the service includes the availability of CRU staff for consultation by telephone, email or fax and for an annual briefing and discussion session. The standard price entitles the client to up to four named users for the online service.
Contents
- Executive summary
- Global overview
- Western Europe
- China
- Rest of world
- Capacity update
- Prices
- Appendix A:
- Industrial and economic outlook
- Regional developments:
- Statistical review
- Tables of historical and forecast data on stainless steel flat product apparent consumption, shipments, trade, capacity, stocks and prices.
CRU provides you with a global outlook
Take advantage of our comprehensive database of individual mills’ steelmaking and rolling capacities. CRU's material flow model of global stainless steel production enables us to provide you with shipment trends by manufacturing country. Taking into account the trade flows of intermediate and finished products, as well as GDP and industrial production growth, we generate quarterly and annual apparent consumption estimates by country and region.
Placed in a common framework, our historical statistics and forecasts will give you a clear picture of the key patterns of global supply, demand and pricing of stainless steel flat products.
Independent and authoritative
CRU is the largest and longest established consultancy specialising in the metals and minerals industries. Forecasts in the Quarterly Report arise from a thorough analysis of industry fundamentals by our dedicated steel research team. The quality of your own analysis and market assessments depends on a trusted information source.
Contact
For more information, please contact:
Richard Pell
Steel Sales Manager
tel: +44 20 7903 2166
email: richard.pell@crugroup.com |