Why Roll Formed Steel for the construction industry? When you are running a construction company, setbacks and material prices are two of the biggest factors you have to consider when planning and budgeting for a project. When it comes to finding the right Steel for the Construction Industry, you want to find a provider for your parts that will be both cost effective, provide good service, and will deliver the [...]
At Roller Die + Forming, we offer a number of finish services to complement our metal forming process. Finishing services are available and useful for applications where the metal needs a coating to provide a smoother feel, a shiner look or needs to be a different color altogether. A smooth finish made in different ways. The most common are liquid coating and powder coating. At Roller Die, we provide powder [...]
Last week, American Metal Market published an important article regarding stainless prices in the month of February. We’d like to inform our trusted customers and blog readers of specific raw material price increases: […]
Here at Roller Die, our awareness of steel market activity is crucial. Many of our blog entries are dedicated to the topic. Our knowledge dictates our timing — the goal is to purchase when prices are lowest, to pass savings on to our customers. Plan your projects soon; steel prices are changing. Please see the letter below from our vendor, Kenwal Steel, regarding an anticipated price increase: “…All of the [...]
COLD ROLLED Most of the integrated mills are full for March on Cold Rolled. We were busy rushing our March orders to the likes of AK and Severstal yesterday. Mittal is currently on lead times but everything I hear tells me that they are full for March. USST is still a questions mark. Have heard that their larger mills(like US Gary) are already closed for march but a couple of [...]
Last week, I read a report from Goldman Sachs that said that we have seen the bottom in the steel prices for carbon-based products for the year. This was report was shortly followed by e-mails from the mills to notify us that steel prices moving up starting January 1 2010.
This past Friday, Nucor sent an e-mail to us saying that they are going to raise their prices. I know a lot of people who keep saying that the prices won’t hold, and they are waiting for a decrease. I would not wait to lock in prices, for we are already seeing improvement in the economy. The first positive sign is that the auto industry said that they will increase volume [...]
I am getting concerned about the steel availability even for the most basic products. We have seen our lead time increase this past week. In addition to this pricing has gone up over 20 percent as well. If you want to protect yourself I would suggest that you contact us about setting yourself up on a contract. The contract will ensure that the product you want will be there. It [...]
The steel prices will rise next year, as well as from the rest of the commodities, for the following reasons. The United States has started printing money to help battle the economic crisis, and this is not a political statement just an economic fact. When this has been done in the past it has caused a rise in the inflation rates. The second effect of this economic crisis is that [...]
Steel Prices are heading up, and we believe that they will move pretty fast over the next couple of months, and will be back above last years pricing. There are several reasons for this. The first one is that the Steel Service Centers are carrying inventory at historic lows. So any increase in demand over the next couple of months will drive prices up. The Second reason is that the [...]
