Selected Domestic Steel Mill Lead Times

We are getting mixed messages regarding “real” lead times coming out of the domestic steel mills. The information we are sharing below comes from actual mill lead times coming directly from the producing mills to their customers. This is different than the lead time averages collected by Steel Market Update and shared with our readers last week after we had concluded our most recent analysis of the flat rolled steel industry.

Below is a sampling of a few domestic steel mill lead times as presented to their customers within the past few working days: