Germany’s stockholding distributors sold a combined 7.297 million tonnes of steel products in the first nine months of 2025, slightly less than in the corresponding 2024 period.
The average monthly tonnage value in the first quarter was 820,000t, marking an apparent increase from the corresponding 2024 value of 813,000t, Kallanish learns from German distributors’ association Bundesverband Deutscher Stahlhandel (BDS).
However, 2024 was also characterised by relatively strong average sales in the second quarter – 816,000t – while customers were more reserved in Q2 this year, with monthly sales at 784,000t.
Split by product group, the average monthly sales of flat products in Q3, 481,000t, marked an increase from Q2, at 456,000t, after Q1 reached 512,000t. This is a somewhat different dynamic from 2024, when average sales of flat products sank throughout the first three quarters. In the nine months of 2025, 4.347mt of flat products were sold by German stockholders.
For long products, 2.26mt were sold in the first nine months. Sales of “other products”, which include wire rod, totalled 680,000t in the first nine months.
In terms of inventory tonnage, the monthly average in Q3 was 1.865mt, down from Q3 2024 with 1.927mt, which itself was slightly down y-on-y from 1.961mt in 2023.
Christian Koehl Germany
