Germany’s stockholding distributors sold a slightly higher tonnage of steel products in 2024 than a year earlier, according to figures from their federation, BDS.
At 9.435 million tonnes, the volume was fractionally up on 9.434mt in 2023. Monthly volumes appear to have been distributed more evenly in 2024 than 2023. In 2023, March sales of 994,000t were, for example, nearly 190,000t above April’s. December was typically the slowest month in both years, with just over 460,000t sold in each year, Kallanish notes.
Both main product categories, longs and flats, lost tonnages somewhat from 2023 to 2024, while “other products” gained. Long products sales in 2024 totalled 2.828mt and flat products came to 5.766mt.
By contrast, “other products” rose by around 140,000t to 841,000t in 2024. This category encompasses wire rod and other products that are not particularly defined in the statistics.
Christian Koehl Germany
