Thin flat products find end use applications in automotive body panels, domestic white goods products, tin cans and a range of other everyday products containing steel.

Steel and related specialty products

Note Production refers to crude steel, consumption to finished steel products.

(iii) Steel and related specialty products

Finished products are subdivided into two basic types flat and long products.

Wire drawn products and seamless pipes are also part of the long steel products group.

China is a net exporter of long products and a net importer of flat products.

Table 5. International trade in finished steel products by major regions (Mt.)

A flat steel product is a plate product or a (hot or cold) rolled strip product.

It specializes in high quality, special steel products designed for the most complicated uses.

Consumption of finished steel is smaller than production of crude steel due to losses in production of finished products (the discarded material is recycled).

In the recent past, the prices of these products have increased faster than steel prices.

Semi finished products are steel shapes (blooms, billets or slabs) that are later rolled into finished products such as beams bars or sheet.

Plate products vary in thickness s from 10 mm to 200 mm, and thin flat rolled products from 1 mm to 10 mm.

Booklets, pamphlets, fact sheets, wall charts and information kits eight issues on advance statistics on the iron steel industry (imports, exports and production of steel products).

A long steel product is a rod, bar or section. Typical rod products are reinforcing rods for concrete, engineering products, gears, tools and a range of products used in building construction.

Thus, steel products as a group were less dynamic than world exports but slightly more dynamic than commodities.

(d) Quarterly data on production, imports and exports of raw material and iron and steel products (ECE 29)

Promoting participation of developing countries in dynamic and new sectors of world trade (iii) Steel and related specialty products

However, several other developing countries, mainly medium or high income ones, have been able to build steel industries that are competitive on world markets and export significant quantities of steel products.

Experts noted that the world steel industry was currently enjoying a boom period, with very high prices for all steel products and hence in spite of high input prices record profits.

However, since steel trade consists of trade in a large number of different steel products, the global figure may considerably understate the impact of Chinese exports and, particularly, imports on individual markets.

Though slightly more expensive than traditional steel or aluminium alternatives, these titanium products can be significantly lighter without compromising strength.

Source World Steel Dynamics, Steel Strategist, May 2003.

Flat

Flat

Crude steel is used to produce semi finished and finished products destined for internal consumption as inputs for further processing or for sale.

So, starting with steel how do you make steel?

Many sell raw materials or base products Ukrainian steel, for example where export competitiveness depends less on product quality than on global commodity prices.

Steel Drum

Cold Steel

Steel works.

Source World Steel Dynamics, The Steel Strategist, 24, June 1998.

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It's flat.