Lead Times: Survey Results vs. Mill Published Reports

Over the course of the last four days Steel Market Update (SMU) has been conducting our mid-April flat rolled steel market trends analysis. We finished earlier this afternoon and we are providing the results of some of our findings to our readers this evening.

Lead times, which is the length of time it takes to get an order produced, are on average shrinking according to those participating in our trends survey (note: our survey results may be different than what is being reported by each individual mill to their customers – we will have more on this at the end of this article).