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Aug
16:35
Demand impressions differ in northwest European plate market
Order activity from plate buyers in northwestern Europe is extremely low and will not pick up notably as long as the summer holidays last, sources observe.
“People are buying only the most necessary material,” says the managing director of a German company that both distributes and processes plate. “They will wait and see until September presumably, and remain on stand-by for prices coming down further.”
In fact, prices already slid very r…
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Very good overview of the weekly steel market.
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