The Platts Steel Markets North America Conference wraps up today, and while Platts puts on a very nice show – thanks for having us, folks – the insights and perspectives we gleaned from the three-day gathering, on balance, reflects trends that MetalMiner has been seeing in the steel industry for a while now.
On the supply side, Timna Tanners, metals and mining analyst for Merrill Lynch, presented a bearish overview of global oversupply – not only in finished steel products, but iron ore and metallurgical coal markets as well.
With all the iron ore slated to come onstream from Fortescue, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, Tanners said that it would take 10% demand growth to absorb all that iron ore – a tall order, especially since US and EU markets shouldn’t contribute all that much demand for the rest of 2013 at the very least.
(Tanners’ steel price forecast for HRC for the rest of the year stands at $610 per ton; we’re pretty much already there – MetalMiner IndX℠ data shows US HRC at $606 today…perhaps good news for HRC buyers for the balance of 2013.)
Joe Anton from IHS Global Insights agrees. In response to a MetalMiner question on what the US supply/overcapacity situation looks like, he said that if we were operating in a vacuum, the US could eat up current production rather handily based on current demand; but as long as we continue to import steel from China and elsewhere, this won’t happen. (Also, keep an eye on USD/EURexchange rates moving forward, Anton advised.)
While agreeing on the supply and import challenges facing the North American industry, on the demand side, chief executives of major producers US Steel, Evraz and Severstal sounded hopeful across the board.
by Taras Berezowsky
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Steel 2013 Forecast: Watch Out For Overcapacity
Published 03/14/2013, 03:56 AM
Updated 07/09/2023, 06:31 AM
Steel 2013 Forecast: Watch Out For Overcapacity
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