Steel Products Prices North America
September 30, 2014
SMU Price Ranges & Indices: Small Adjustments
Written by John Packard
Steel Market Update spent the last two days canvassing end users and service centers to see where flat rolled steel prices are at the moment and where they might be heading from here. We heard from many service centers and end users that business conditions and demand for their products are doing quite well. We spoke with three service centers located in different areas of the country who reported record sales and shipments for their products.
A hot rolled service center told us that their company was seeing excellent volumes although they reported their competitors as “having lost pricing discipline” which was creating an environment where it is getting harder to make money.
