Month: April 2018

En el enlace siguiente pueden acceder a la edición de abril de nuestra revista Infoacero:  Infoacero Abril 2018

A continuación destacamos algunos de sus contenidos:

•     Próxima Jornada UAHE- Asamblea General y Conferencias- Madrid, 12 de Junio.

•     Evolución del Índice de Precios de Productos Siderúrgicos – UAHE.

•     Próximos Eventos: Bienal Máquina Herramienta 2018 (1 de Junio, Bilbao) y Metalmadrid 2018 (26 y 27 de Septiembre, Madrid)

•     Informe Worlsteel Association: Previsiones a corto plazo de la Demanda de Acero – Abril 2018

•     Colaboración ASCEM: Jornada Técnica ASCEM- 10 de Mayo.

Steel Mont GmbH is a global trading and logistics organization having its core activities as international trading, trade-finance and project finance of various products and industries.

The company is certified as per Quality Management Systems ISO 9001-2008.

Steel Mont GmbH has its global presence through its appointed agents in the UK, Ukraine, UAE, India, Italy, Turkey and Russia. This enables them to have first hand information of the global markets on a real time basis.

Steel Mont has experience in the trading business with primary interest in steel, Ferro-alloys, construction materials, coal, coke, coking coal, chemicals, mineral ores, fertilizers, agricultural commodities and mining and metallurgical equipment.

Strategie. Mit dem Neubau seines Werks in Gera reagiert Stahlo auf die sich verändernden Bedürfnisse des Markts. Doppelt so viele Anlagen wie am alten Standort helfen dem modernen Stahl-Service-Center seine jährliche Kapazität auf zukünftig rund 400.000 Tonnen zu steigern. Dabei wird ein Großteil der Prozesse im Werk automatisiert ablaufen.

 

 Stahlo Beitrag DE

Quelle: Stahlo

Germany’s Klöckner & Co has reported price-driven sales growth of 1.6% to €1.6 billion ($1.9 billion) in the first quarter of 2018, Kallanish learns from the steel distribution group.

In a positive overall market environment, the group expects significantly higher Ebitda than in Q1 2018 of €65-75 million for Q2 2018. Due to the increase in steel demand and internal optimisation measures, operating income for the full year is now expected to be slightly above its prior-year level, it says.

Klöckner notes that it has continued to make good progress with its so-called digital transformation. It further increased the proportion of sales generated through digital channels to 19% at the end of the quarter. The open industrial platform XOM Metals also went live. Initial transactions have already been successfully completed on the platform, the distributor says.

Ebitda, at €56m, was slightly above the guidance range of €45-55m but below the €77m recorded in Q1 2017. The decrease relative to the prior-year quarter is mainly due to less pronounced price effects and a weaker US dollar. At €21m, net income was once again well into positive figures, but down on €36m posted in Q1 2017.

Klöckner would not be interested in Thyssenkrupp Material’s special steel producer AST Terni, nor the raw materials trading unit, as part of a possible takeover, Klöckner CEO Gisber Rühl said during a media call on Wednesday.

“Interest is logical when it’s on offer, but only under certain conditions,” Rühl said. “It’s clear that we have no interest in Terni and some trading business — trading with coking coal does not fit [us],” he added, noting even the parameters of a possible TK Materials sale remained unclear.

“There have not been talks as of yet. The signing between Tata and Thyssenkrupp has not happened yet, and I believe this needs to be done before the conversation [of a TK Materials spin-off] can start,” said Rühl, indicating that Thyssenkrupp will have to make the first move once it has signed for the merger of its steel division with Tata Steel.

Thyssenkrupp has hinted of a possible sale of its distribution arm and the Terni plant.

Rühl said the importance of growing through acquisitions has lessened for Klöckner, as the company ventures into providing online trading platforms. He had told S&P Global Platts last month that the possibility of acquisitions was back on the cards, following its decision to become a minority shareholder of its own trading platform, XOM.

Salzgitter Mannesmann Stahlhandel, the distribution unit of Salzgitter AG, has launched an online platform for auctioning steel products on the internet, Kallanish hears.

The platform is named e-Auction and makes Salzgitter the first steelmaker worldwide to offer such a channel, according to the head of Business Solutions, Thomas Schöler. Apart from the auctioning of steel products, in a process similar to that of eBay, the company plans also in the future to put out production capacities to tender. This could facilitate a better utilisation of heats for given products and qualities that could be pre-booked by customers, to the advantage of both sides, the company claims.

The new system was presented on Salzgitter’s stand at the Hannover Messe trade fair. Another topic highlighted at the fair is the SALCOS-Projekt (Salzgitter Low CO² Steelmaking), the group’s ongoing project to reduce carbon dioxide in the steelmaking process.

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EUROMETAL is going to convene an International Steel Distribution, SSC & Trade Day in Hamburg.

During this conference, senior executives, expert with the various aspects of international steel distribution, SSC & trading, will present their views about challenges and chances facing international steel exports and steel imports.

We will invite to this conference all European stakeholders of steel trading, steel distribution & service centerd as well as all connected logistics and port operators.

In this way, the conference will surely be an international networking platform.

 

Empire Riverside Hotel in Hamburg

09.10.2018

 

Distribution & SSC Session

• Enhancing Contribution of Steel Stockholding & SSC to the Value Chain of Steel
• Future Challenges Ahead of SSC Business
• Challenges Facing Independent Steel Stockholders & SSC confronted with a consolidating steel supply side
• Impact of Industry 4.0 on Steel Supply Chains
• Supply chains 4.0: A Game Changer in Steel Stockholding & SSC
• Steel logistics: Coping with a Tightening Bottleneck in Steel Supply Flows

International Steel Trade Session

• Rising Steel Protectionism Triggering a Tectonic Drift in International Steel Trade Flows
• EU Steel Trade Policy and the Future of EU Market Supply
• Future Threats to Global Supply Chains
• Challenges and Chances for Steel Trade in a Shifting International Trade System

Steel Net Forum & International Steel Trade Day

Construction consumes some 750 million mt/year of steel products globally – 51% of total usage – and the percentage is set to grow as rising populations and urbanization demand more infrastructure and homes. Steel’s use in construction will grow faster than in other fields. The automotive sector, despite inroads from aluminum and the uncertainties of broader mobility changes, should continue to represent 15% of steel usage while oil and gas may see steel usage fall from the current 8% of the total on an eventual move away from fossil fuels.

Still, not all is rosy in the construction camp, where, since the global economic crisis, steel has lost market share to concrete and in some cases timber in nations including Germany, the Netherlands and the UK as well as in Russia and the Middle East. According to worldsteel, which held its second Construction Conference in London April 17-18, this is partly due to funding cuts in promotion of steel as a sustainable and cost-effective material.

In the UK, structural steel’s market share of all construction materials in 2005-9 averaged 71%, falling to 66% in 2016, according to the British Constructional Steelwork Association. In the Netherlands, structural steel’s share in the single storey market fell from 90% in 2005-9 to 80% in 2016, while its share in multi-storey constructions fell from 89% to 80% over the same period, says Bouven met Staal, a national association.

Worldsteel’s director general Edwin Basson stresses it may be time for steelmakers and associations “to do something similar to what was done with the auto industry” – referring to a concerted worldwide initiative to publicize the role of steel in construction. In recent years, a campaign to publicize ultralight automotive steel is thought to have won some market share back for steel against aluminum.

Collaboration is key as the construction sector prepares for new buildings to become emissions-free by 2050 at an operational level in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Under worldsteel’s year-old “contructsteel” initiative, actions to boost steel’s role in construction are taking place with companies including France’s Saint-Gobain, a plasterboard and glass manufacturer that may in the past have been considered a “competitor”, and major steelmakers including Tata Steel and ArcelorMittal. Also involved are steel construction development associations including Bouwen met Staal, the UK’s Steel Construction Institute, German associations and Russia’s ARSS, sponsored by steel producers Evraz, OMK, Mechel, Severstal and NLMK.

Others are seeking involvement. “The Brazilians are knocking at the door,” Basson said, noting contacts from the Brazilian Steel Institute and Latin American Steel Association Alacero, while discussions are taking place with Chinese companies, supported by Chinese Steel Association CISA.

Diana Kinch, PLATTS

Read more on steel in construction in the current edition of Platts Metals Insight

Steel distributors’ endeavours to drive digitalisation and processing services should be questioned at least for some areas of the distribution industry, says Hanns-Jörg Westendorf of German tubes company Hoberg & Driesch.

“Digitalisation is the magic word of the times, but you need to differentiate as to where you stand,” he tellsKallanish. In line with many other managers involved in the topic, he notes that e-commerce works best for standard homogenous articles where price is the main criterion.

Tubes, however, is a business of wide variety. Westendorf therefore dismisses the idea of necessarily having an online market place, but agrees that digitalisation should be used to optimise a company’s handling processes, and to provide the customers with a better overview of inventories.

In this context, he also questions the common opinion that offering added value means better business. Following customers’ ideal of one-stop shopping of processed material in small lots may not be worthwhile for the supplier, he states. Hoberg & Driesch, for example, bought a saw for hydraulic oil pipes ten years ago, which added a value that could be given in percentage figures. Other ancillary factors, such as operation costs, maintenance, packaging of the products, and a more difficult utilisation of truck capacities, were harder to grasp.

“I am very much convinced that the core distribution business is subject to other criteria of success,” Westendorf says. “You can make good money with pure distribution and a bit of size cutting, if you do it right.”