Final Thoughts
October 27, 2014
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
This is good. There is a debate going on within the industry regarding the need for a price increase and whether the customers (tail) are wagging the dog (mill).
One buyers ask SMU, “Knowing their history of lacking price discipline…taking advantage of their fear and uncertainty of not filling mill and talking the market down – or at least (mill name removed) down… Would think they [the mill] rather make stock items, or slow production rather than erode the entire market (says the ignorant service center guy).”
