Steel Mills
June 9, 2014
April Flat Rolled Utilization Rate 84.2% & Long Products 73.4%
Written by Peter Wright
Total shipments of sheet and strip products including hot rolled, cold rolled and all coated products were up by 0.8 percent year to date (YTD) compared to the first four months of 2013. In the period January through April compared to the previous three months, the total tonnage was up by 4.8 percent. Comparing YTD shipments for 2014 and 2013 for individual products, hot band was up by 2.4 percent and hot dipped galvanized (HDG) by 3.6 percent. Cold rolled was down by 3.2 percent, electro-galvanized by 5 percent and other metallic coated (mainly Galvalume) by 16.7 percent, (Table 1).
