Steel Products Prices North America
April 14, 2014
Shipments of Sheet and Strip Products through February 2014
Written by Peter Wright
Total shipments of sheet and strip steel products, including hot rolled, cold rolled and all coated products, were down by 3.5 percent YTD compared to the first two months of 2013. In the period December through February compared to the previous three months, the total tonnage was down by 2.3 percent.
Comparing YTD shipments for 2014 and 2013 for individual products, hot band was down by 4.0 percent and cold rolled by 6.2 percent. There were big differences in the performance of coated products YTD. Hot dipped galvanized was up by 1.4 percent, electro galvanized declined by 3.4 percent and other metallic coated, mainly galvalume took a major hit being down by 23.2 percent (Table 1).
