The July shipment level, given estimates and licenses, is certainly the best volume of this year and last. We have to go back to January 2019 to find a better shipment month. We continue to see good shipping news in this product sector. Last month we talked about the stainless pipe and tube usage in the renewable energy growth and this month we want to point out that carbon capture systems will use a fair share of stainless products. Pipe and tube will certainly be a part of that mix. We are also seeing more focus on reducing natural gas flaring so we will see some potential pipeline expansion which leads us to compression/filtering stations that can be stainless pipe and tube intensive.
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