Steel Service

Global Insight Steel Service provides steel producers and steel buyers with a comprehensive outlook for the US steel market. Delivering a complete market perspective and combining an extensive array of historical information on steel and steel products, customers receive analysis and forecasts of key concepts such as price, production, and demand, along with extensive historical data.

Benefits:

Steel Service Components enables you to:

• Negotiate supplier agreements
• Monitor supply trends
• Plan inventory and determine the optimum product mix
• Develop marketing and sales strategies
• Prepare budgets and financial reviews

Subscribers receive:

Quarterly Steel Review
With a focus on the US market, The Quarterly Steel Review provides a complete perspective and extensive ten-year forecast data on steel consumption, production, and exports and imports by product. Projections of consumption by end-market activity are also available. This quarterly product also contains IHS Global Insight's sector outlook for the overall steel industry; the individual steel products, such as hot-rolled, galvanized, stainless; the health of key steel-consuming industries; input costs, such as coal, natural gas; and the global demand environment.

Steel Monthly Report
The Steel Monthly Report provides regular updates on the US steel industry with a short-term outlook for key products and end-market demand. We provide you with the latest data on:

• Production
• Shipments
• Imports/exports
• Indicators tracking end-market activity and the US economy
• Price and volume forecasts for over a dozen product types (third month of each quarter)

Additionally, each month, this report provides clients with an outlook of the steel industry and—on a rotating basis—various steel products and steel-consuming industries.

Steel Forecast Tables
Global Insight Steel Forecast Tables include Excel spreadsheets delivering ten-year projections for steel production, consumption, prices, and exports and imports by product and end-market activity.

Concept Coverage

• Quarterly Steel Review

  • Energy products
  • Steel price and cost
  • Production
  • Apparent Consumption by Product Group
  • Shipments by Product Group and End Market
  • Imports by Product Group
  • Exports by Product Group
  • General Economy Indicators
  • End Market Indicators
  • Demand, Trade, and Shipments
  • Construction Market Report
  • Automotive Market Report
  • Oil & Gas Industry Market Report

• Monthly Steel Report

  • Energy products
  • Steel price and cost
  • Production
  • Apparent Consumption
  • Shipments

Frequency and Horizon

• Quarterly Steel Review

  • 10-year forecast horizon
  • Quarterly forecast updates
  • Quarterly and annual forecast data

• Steel Monthly Report

  • 18-month price forecast, update monthly
  • 18-month supply and demand forecasts, updated quarterly
  • Annual data
  • Historical data vary and are available as far back as source data go (typically around 1980)

Historic Data Sources:
Historical data vary and are available as far back as source data go (typically around 1980)

• Purchasing Magazine
• American Iron and Steel Institute

Related Historical Data available for Purchase

• International Iron & Steel Institute (ISII)
• American Iron & Steel Institute (AISI)
• US Department of Commerce
• US Department of the Interior
• US Geological Survey

Access to IHS Global Insight senior-level analysts is a key client benefit. For more than 30 years, our expert team has provided an independent, fact-based view of the steel industry. Our 325+ economists and analysts worldwide support the service with expertise in over 170 industries and 200 countries.

IHS Global Insight is the world leader in economic and financial analysis, forecasting, and market intelligence—with more than 40 years' experience and an outstanding record for accuracy.