Where did the steel strip go?
Release Date:
2022-06-23
Author:
Hengyuan Industry and Trade
Since entering the industry in 2017, I’ve often heard many people—traders and downstream manufacturers—wondering: Where has all this strip steel (hot‑rolled strip steel, hereafter referred to as “strip steel”) gone? With such high daily production volumes, steel mills never struggle to sell; yet everyone keeps complaining that one brand or another of strip steel is hard to work with, and still it all gets snapped up—at market prices, no less. Some sales representatives, too, frequently lament how difficult it is to move strip steel—but by the time they try to sell, the inventory is already gone, whether they’re targeting the broader market or direct downstream customers.
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