Steel Products Prices North America
September 28, 2014
Bits ‘N Pieces: A Galvanized & SMU History Lesson
Written by John Packard
From the years 1997 through 2007 Steel Market Update’s founder and publisher, John Packard, was representing Winner Steel, a domestic conversion mill operating out of Sharon, Pennsylvania and now part of the NLMK USA group. He shares some of his old notes on galvanized pricing which ultimately lead to the beginnings of Steel Market Update as a publication:
Over the weekend I was cleaning out some of my old sales files. In the process I found some of the prime prices quoted in the past and found the information to be pretty interesting. Especially when taking a look at the current flat rolled steel pricing coming out of the domestic steel mills. Here are just a few examples:
