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This site offers visitorssteel industry newsfrom around the globe; steelpricing data(including raw material prices); steelmaking plant and equipment capex costs; and steel market knowledge (supply and demand). Our consultants provide impartial expertadvisory supportrelating to metal sector modernisation & investment. This includes feasibility assessments and due diligence appraisals.

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WORLD STEEL PRICES

Trends & Forecasts

Iron ore costs and finished steel prices appear to be on a downward trend. As of Q4 2022, we expect the bottom of the price cycle (the next pricing trough) to occur in mid-2025. Why not check out our 2024 / 2025 market outlook to learn more?

STEEL MARKET OUTLOOK

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Capex Outlays

We maintain a database ofcapital expendituresfor iron and steel industry plant and equipment. The database content, compiled from public sources for over 1200 actual modernisations, covers the following.

Input materials: coal washing plants, lime kilns, sinter plants, coke making, iron ore beneficiation, pellet plants,DRIandHBI.
Iron and steel making: blast furnaces,BFreline costs,BOF, electric arc furnace, induction furnaces and continuous casting. We also maintain capital investment cost data for other melt shop equipment such as pig iron desulphurization, pulverised coal injection (PCI), ladle furnaces, vacuum degassing, vacuum arc remelting (VAR), vacuum oxygen decarburisation (VOD) for stainless steels.
Flat products: steel plate,HRC(hot rolled coil) including Steckel mills,CRC(cold rolled coil),HDG(hot dip galvanised sheet), tinplate, organic coated sheet, temper rolling (skin-pass mills).
Long iron and steel products: heavy sections, rail, carbon steel bar, rod, wire, strand and rope. We also have reheat furnace capex costs.
管,焊管,cluding high frequencyERWas well as helical or longitudinal submerged arc welded [HSAWorLSAW]; and seamless tube. We also hold pipe coating line cost information (for both epoxy and concrete coatings).
Ancillary operations: air separation units, dedusting, power generation units, slitting lines, pickling lines, batch or continuous annealing lines, waste water treatment systems, acid regeneration plants, scrap shredding machinery.
Further processing: slitting lines, blanking equipment, wire drawing, welded wire mesh fabrication, ball grinding.
Greenfield steelworks: iron ore based integrated mills, mini mills.
New technology Danieli MiDa micro mills (endless casting and rolling).
Decarbonisation related technologies: such as electrolyzers, wind farms and solar power plants.
Carbon, alloy and specialty steels including stainless.

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Selected Steel IndustryMaps

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We can supply global asset location and capacity spreadsheet data and / or prepare digital maps for any group of industrial facilities in most geographies. These territories include Asia, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the United States and South America.

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COMPANY RESTRUCTURING

Thinking about corporate restructuring? Are you maybe on the road to privatisation? We have much experience in metal sector corporate turnaround assignments and would be pleased to assist you. Call us for a no-obligation discussion.

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Cost Models

We can prepareeconomic modelsfor raw material production (including coke, sinter,DRI), iron and steelmaking (forBOF,EAFand induction furnace process), casting and rolling (including flat, long or tube products). These models can be prepared for any region of the world, or for any nominated facility. Pleasecontact usfor further information.

Example here shows 2023 liquid steel costs for electric arc furnace based steelmaking in a notional one million tonne per year coastal works in Japan, in US dollars per metric tonne.

Economic models may be supplied for single or linked steel manufacturing processes (e.g. anEAFwith a billet caster plus a bar mill); and with more or less detail than shown here.

2023 EAF Economics

Models can also be used for cost curves e.g.hot rolled coil(HRC).

BOF ECONOMICSEAF COST MODEL

STEEL FEASIBILITY STUDY

Are you looking for help with an independent feasibility appraisal for a steel plant investment? Do you need a market, technical and financial evaluation as part of the viability assessment? This is our core business.

FEASIBILITY STUDIES

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Historic Perspectives

Selected Steel Firm: Wuhan

Recent events:
2012: Purchase completed by Wuhan of remaining equity of Liuzhou. ...
2012: Wuhan Steel drops plans to build Brazil steel ...
2012: Agreement to buy ThyssenKrupp's tailored blanks ...
2013: Wuhan in talks to develop iron ore project in West ...
2014: First shipment made of iron ore from Liberia. ...
2015: Anti-corruption agency investigates former chairman Deng ...
2015: Concern emerging about status of WISCO foreign ...
2016: Start-up expected of new 8.6 mt/yr steelworks Fangchengang. ...
2016: Merger takes place of Baosteel and Wuhan Iron & ...
2017: Ex-chairman Deng Qilin imprisoned for 15 years for ...
2017: For subsequent developments, seeBaowu history...

For earlier Wuhan events,
visitWuhan historypage.

Why not check out our 'history of steel' pages, and learn about the corporate history of the world's 30 largest steelmakers?

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METALS CONSULTING INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

Looking for more information about our firm? Learn more about our ferrous and non-ferrous expert witness support services and related activities in the metals and mining industries.

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Iron and Steel Plant Database

Our database of plant and equipment in iron and steel production facilities covers:

Raw materials (coke, sinter, direct reduced iron orHBI, blast furnace pig iron)
Steelmaking assets (EAFandBOFcrude steel)
Semi-finished products (bloom, billet, slab)
Flat products (plate, hot and cold rolled coil, coated sheet including galvanised iron orGI,PPGI, and tinplate)
Long products (heavy and light sections, bar, reinforcing bar, wire rod)
Seamless and welded tube (including helical / spiral and longitudinal welded pipe).

This information encompasses both carbon and specialty steel (including stainless, electrical steel,SBQ) and is continuously updated. We can provide facility information for these plant items in most regions of the world. The data coverage typically includes:

Site location
Works ownership
Factory installation date
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Annual capacity in metric tons per year
Machinery and / or technology specification
Dimensional capability [such as minimum / maximum gauge or section diameter]
Details of other ancillary on-site equipment
and in many cases: the name of the foundry supplier, modernisation details, and comments on grade or product orientation.

If for example you are interested in a report on blast furnace commissioning dates, we can provide the following analysis for ~1500 different furnaces worldwide.

Blast Furnace	Capacity, kt	Start Up
Shandong Steel Group, Shandong, China	3750	2017
Kobe Steel, Hyogo, Japan	2004	2017
CSP - Cia Siderurgica do Pecem, Ceara, Brazil	3030	2016
Zarand Iranian Steel, Iran	1515	2016
Wuhan Fangchenggang, Guangxi, China	7575	2016
Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, Ha Tinh, Vietnam	3570	2016
Kardemir, Turkey	2040	2015
Baosteel Group Zhanjiang Steel, Guangdong, China	5610	2015
Tata Steel, Odisha, India	3365	2015
Krakatau Steel, West Java, Indonesia	1350	2015
V&M do Brazil, Minas Gerais, Brazil	1545	2014
Jiangsu Tieben, Jiangsu, China	8655	2014

Source: James F King. Assessment prepared in mid-2023.

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EXPERT WITNESS SUPPORT

We also provide independent expert witness support to help resolve steel sector legal disputes. Our experts offer objective and unbiased opinions on technical or commercial matters relating to iron & steel. Contact us for a no-obligation discussion on +44 (0) 775-149 0885.

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Competition and Industry Structure

Steel company profitability is typically determined by the extent of competition in a given product market. In some sectors, a producer can enjoy a near-monopoly supply position. The production of concrete reinforcing bar in the UK is one such example, with Celsa's Tremorfa mill in Cardiff being the sole UK manufacturer.

Other markets more commonly have multiple suppliers. Thus, rebar fabrication in Spain is much more competitive than in the UK and is characterised by the existence of eight competing plants (see table below). Rebar supply in other countries is still more fragmented. In Italy there are over 30 rebar production facilities; and in Turkey, we estimate that there are more than 50 rebar mills.

Owner	Plant	Location	Capacity, kt / yr
ArcelorMittal	Zumarraga [partly closed?]	Gipuzkoa	225
Celsa Group	Castellbisbal	Barcelona	325
Celsa Group	La Coruna (Atlantique)	Galicia	780
Celsa Group	Nervacero (Bilbao)	Vizcaya	400
Grupo Alfonso Gallardo	Jerez de los Caballeros (JDLC)	Badajoz	650
Megasa	La Coruna	Naron	675
Megasa	Zaragoza	Aragon	750
Riva	Siderurgica Sevillana	Seville	350

Arcelor Mittal Zumarraga facility in Gipuzkoa was partially closed in 2016; this rebar production facility may currently be mothballed. However, the ArcelorMittal Bergara bar mill in Gipuzkoa may have additional rebar capacity. Megasa full name is Metalurgica Galaica SA; the firm acquired the Zaragoza bar mill from ArcelorMittal in 2016. Grupo Gallardo facilities were acquired by Grupo Industrial Cristian Lay in August 2020. Note that Celsa's 550 kt / year Russula wire rod factory in Bayonne (commissioned in 2021) is just across the border in France.

Please contactinfo@steelonthenet.com为进一步洞察extent of competition in any given market sector.

Independent Advice

Our main activity isfeasibility studyappraisal and due diligence work, for mining and metal sector clients worldwide. Why not call one of our advisors for a no-obligation discussion on +44-775-149-0885 ? Alternatively please email our consultants atinfo@steelonthenet.com.

We may be able to help with an independent consumption analysis; with a technical and / or financial review of your investment plans; offer insight into your strategic positioning; and perhaps assist you in obtaining external finance.

Our parent company Metals Consulting International Limited is an independent privately owned firm.MCIis based in London, in the United Kingdom.

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MANUFACTURING PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT

Looking to improve your plant's operating performance? We have technical experts in melting casting and rolling, who are able to diagnose manufacturing problems and offer solutions. See our industrial case studies page.

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If so, we have some great resources that might be of interest. Click below to see some introductory videos about how steel is made. Another link below will also take you to our steel industry glossary of terms.

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