Steel market trends

摘要

The Russian steelmakers. outlook will become bleaker in 2013. Weak demandin the traditional export outlets and shrinkage of the home market for steelproducts will lead to a reduction in output of steel products. Besides, intracompanyshipments of semis to overseas facilities are expected to decline thisyear because of the facilities. suspensions and shutdowns. Production is expectedto shrink by 2.7 mt in the segment for longs (billets included), by 4.8 mt in thatfor flats (merchant slabs included) and by 900,000 t in that for seamless pipesand round billets. Reduced steel product output will depress that of crude steelby 8.7 mt, to 61.5 mt.