Domestic pipe, tube market remains lackluster

Feb 26, 2013 | 04:14 PM | Thorsten Schier

Tags  steel pipe and tube, hollow structural sections, HSS, oil country tubular goods, OCTG, Bull Moose Tube, Baker Hughes, drill rig count Thorsten Schier

NEW YORK — The U.S. pipe and tube market remains somewhat weak early in the year, with prices generally holding steady or dipping and recently announced hikes so far failing to take hold.

"Prices are going down slowly. It’s just soft demand," a source at one structural and mechanical mill said. ....





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