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Après le succès des premiers Trophées Eiffel d’architecture acier organisés en 2015, ConstruirAcier lance la deuxième édition de ce concours qui s’impose déjà comme le grand rendez-vous de l’architecture métallique. Les trophées Eiffel d’architecture acier visent à distinguer des œuvres architecturales variées et significatives, réalisées tout ou partie grâce au matériau acier. Concepteurs, architectes, ingénieurs et entreprises de construction métallique… vous avez jusqu’au 29 avril 2016 pour déposer votre dossier de candidature sur le site des Trophées Eiffel

Qui peut participer ?

·         Projet implanté sur le territoire français

·         Réalisation livrée entre le 1er janvier 2014 et le 31 décembre 2015 et n’ayant pas été déjà candidat à l’édition 2015

·         Ouvrage construit tout ou partie avec de l’acier dans toutes ses formes d’utilisation : structure, enveloppe ou second-œuvre.

Comment participer ?

·         6 catégories : FRANCHIR / HABITER / TRAVAILLER / APPRENDRE / DIVERTIR / VOYAGER

·         Dépôt du dossier à l’initiative d’un des acteurs du projet : architecte, BE, entreprise, maître d’ouvrage…

·         Fiche d’inscription à télécharger sur ici

Quand participer ?

·         29 avril 2015 minuit : date limite de dépôt des dossiers

·         septembre 2016 : examen des projets par le jury

·         début octobre 2016 : remise des prix à Paris lors de la soirée Steel.in

Le jury est composé d’architectes, ingénieurs, journalistes spécialisés en architecture et industriels de la filière Acier, reconnus pour la qualité de leurs travaux dans le monde de l’architecture, de la construction acier et de la métallerie.

Les œuvres sont jugées sur leurs qualités architecturales et constructives alliées à la mise en valeur du matériau acier.

Pour découvrir les projets lauréats 2015 et vous inscrire pour l’édition 2016, rendez-vous sur le site dédié des Trophées Eiffel

Raw material and finished steel prices continued to firm last week, with improving sentiment in the iron ore market feeding confidence into steel markets and vice versa. The trap of low demand preventing prices increasing for a sustained period of time appears to have been shut for now as rhetoric over production cuts finally appears to be realized.

The benchmark Platts IODEX assessment had iron ore ticking up closer to the $50/dry metric ton mark last week although the pace of increase had slowed. Steel mill margins benefitted as the spread between the iron ore price and the domestic Chinese HRC level rose by $5/mt week-on-week, while the Platts China long steel spread suggests rebar producers’ margins were $181/mt as of February 29. This was up markedly from the low point of $147/mt as of December 7.

The strengthening domestic Chinese market has allowed steel producers to focus their attention on selling locally rather than exporting. This decline in supply meant the Platts East Asian CFR HRC assessment rose $10.50/mt week-on-week to $298-303/mt.

Last year much of the world’s pricing for hot rolled coil fell in line with an FOB China price plus freight. This increase in export prices has helped mills in other regions to push prices as was seen in the $12.50/mt increase in the FOB Black Sea market and even a €5/mt rise in the domestic north European Platts assessment.

Europe has been increasingly exposed to imports, with China, Russia, Iran, Brazil, South Korea and more recently India increasing their presence in the trade statistics. The firming of the Chinese offers following the Lunar New Year holiday reinforced the confidence of domestic steelmakers to push for higher levels. Similarly, in the US the trade measures brought in to limit the competition from external sources continued to support mills as the ex-works Indiana cold rolled coil assessment gained $10/short ton.

On the other hand, the outlook looks much weaker in the Brazilian market where the macroeconomic picture is weighing on demand for steel. The construction sector is particularly weak and prices of products such as rebar are falling amid the competition for orders. On the flats side, the financial difficulties at Usiminas saw it withdraw offers to Europe following the carnival period, instantly removing one of the previously most competitive players for cold rolled coil and EZ. This built upon the trade actions in the US which cut off one of the most significant markets for the Brazilian producers.

The international scrap market has bounced even higher than iron ore as a glut of buying in India spooked the Turkish mills into accepting higher prices for cargoes. This sentiment carried on as the return of spring and construction activity boosted domestic demand at a time when exporting is increasingly difficult.

This market analysis report was taken from the March 2 edition of Platts World Steel Review.

Peter Brennan, PLATTS

Italy’s flat steel market could see “…radical changes in the next few months” due to the implementation of new anti-dumping duties and the uncertainties surrounding Ilva, Italian steel trade association Assofermet tells Kallanish.

The association claims that the duties imposed on Chinese-origin cold rolled products, and the ongoing investigations on imports of hot rolled coils will play a decisive role in changing the Italian supply chain.

The current practices of sourcing from extra-EU countries “…are about to change, as the new measure will remove one of the most significant and stable sources of the last years,” the document states. HRC accounted for approximately 65% of the steel imported into Italy in 2015, according to Assofermet.

“For a long time the competitive pressure determined by overcapacity, combined with the abundance of supply alternatives, including imports, has allowed distributors to benefit from a large bargaining power,” the association says. “The current and future environment is likely to see a greater regionalization of the supply chain, with domestic and European sources gaining market share over imports.”

According to the report, the Italian flat product market registered a positive performance in 2015 as “…distributors benefited from increases in consumption in almost all application areas, whilst Ilva recorded significant losses in terms of market share.”

The outlook for the retail sector remains potentially favourable, but “…it will be necessary to search for new suppliers who can provide the volumes we received from China and Russia,” Assofermet concludes.

Kallanish

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