AK Steel, Nucor raise flat-rolled prices $50/ton
Nov 06, 2012 | 04:59 PM
| Chris Prentice
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Chris Prentice
NEW YORK — Domestic steel mills have kick-started a second fourth-quarter price increase on flat-rolled products at a time when scrap input costs look poised to rise.
West Chester, Ohio-based AK Steel Corp. led the move, announcing late Monday that it was increasing all spot market base prices for carbon flat-rolled steel by $50 per ton, effective immediately for new orders.
The move came less than three weeks after the company, along with other producers, raised prices $40 per ton in an effort to halt a slide in flat-rolled tags (amm.com, Oct. 17).....
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