Japan’s November sheet coil stocks down 3% on month

摘要

Stocks of hot-rolled, cold-rolled and coated coils held by Japanese steelmakers,distributors and coil centers were down 2.9% month on month at 4.14 million mt at theend of November, data released by Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp showed.A NSSMC spokeswoman said deliveries were disrupted after a huge typhoon hit Japan inSeptember but had improved in October and November. “Demand has been firm from theconstruction and manufacturing sectors; our production remains at mostly full capacity,”she said.