Nucor-Yamato, Nucor hold beams flat

Dec 11, 2012 | 04:04 PM | Frank Haflich

Tags  steel, structural beams, beam prices, Nucor-Yamato, Nucor, Frank Haflich

LOS ANGELES — Published structural steel prices will remain steady into the new year as the market leader in wide-flange beams this week announced plans to hold prices unchanged for Jan. 1 shipments.

Nucor-Yamato Steel Co., Blytheville, Ark., will drop its raw materials surcharge for January shipments by $1 per ton (5 cents per hundredweight) while boosting its published base price by the same amount, resulting in "no change in the transaction price for all products" come 2013, it said in a Dec. 10 letter to customers.....





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