10
Feb
08:33
Northwest European plate customers give mixed signals
The resurgence in plate demand is apparently being driven by end-users, while the purchasing attitude of stockholding distributors remains unreliable, some observers find.
“I have not seen the latest statistics of stockholders’ monthly performance, but it seems that they reduced their inventories until year-end, to replenish it in the new year,” a mill source says. While this is nothing unusual compared with other years, he suggests that, right n…
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