The European and Italian metal industry's short-term outlook remain somewhat positive. Following spring months (March to May) decreased by about half a percentage point compared to the first quarter of this year, demand for metal from user companies is anticipated to modestly rise in the following three months. The car sector continues to promote metal consumption. In Italy, the growth of the piping sector is above the European average, and in other EU nations in particular, while the Italian piping industry is still below the same time last year. The building sector is continuing to recover in all EU nations, including Italy, but the growth pace has slowed.
How about the steel industry in Europe?
The global output of metal was 14,332 million tons in May, a rise of 2.0% (+2,845 million tons) over the same month in 2016. The use rate of metal mills in 2017 increased from 71.3% in April last year to 71.8%.
From January through May, worldwide metal mills generated 69,876 million tons, a 4.7% rise over the previous year. Six of the top 10 metal-producing nations saw increases in production in May. Brazil (+13.2 to 2,931 billion tons) is the best performance, followed up by Turkey (+9.7 to 3,288 billion tonnes), India (+6.4 to 8,5 billion tonnes), China (+ 1.7 to 72,259 million tonnes), the USA (+0.1 to 6,995 million tonnes) and Japan (+0.1 to 8,951 million tonnes).
The decrease is -1.4% to 3,801 million tons in Germany, -1.5% to 5,953 million tonnes, -2.7% to 5,665 million tonnes) in South Korea and in Italy (-4 percent to 2.109 million tons). From the world's nine macro-areas split by the World Metal Association, seven regions are increasing output compared to April 2016: the EU has risen by 2.0% (14,758 million tons), while European non-EU nations have grown by 10.3%. (3.558 million tons). Tons), 10.2% of South America (3,691 million tonnes), 10.5% of the countries of Africa (1,178 million tonnes), 0.7% of the Middle East (2.597 million tonnes), 2.4% of Asia (98,931 million tonnes), and 12.9% of Oceania (492,000 tons).
The CIS dropped by 7.1% to 8.363 million tons, while North America stayed constant at 9.760 million tons. In the European Union, 10 of the 20 metal-producing Member States have suffered from increase in output. Hungary (+72.9%, 166,000 tons) is the highest performing nation, while the UK is the worst (-16.1 percent , 628,000 tons).
Metal industry in Italy
The Italian metal output decreased by 4.1 percent year-on-year at 2,109 million tons in May 2017. A decrease of 90,000 tons in tons.
The factory use rate is about 73.8 per cent.
The production was 10,261 million tons from January to May, an increase of 1.5% over the same period in 2016. As for completed metal, Federacciai has stated that in April the long metal output (the most recent statistics available) amounted to 987,000 tons (-8.2%), compared to 4,067 million tons (+4.4%) in the first quarter.
Flaw metal output was 886,000 tons in April (-13.7), compared to 3,801 million tons in the first four months (-1.8 percent).
Import
In March 2017, Italy imported 2 609 million tonnes, which were 3.5% lower than the same month in 2016, of metal raw materials and semi-finished goods, completed products and pipes. According to ISTAT data from Siderweb, nearly all of the categories examined were included: raw materials (-9.7%), flat goods (-8.1%), long products (-1.6%) and pipes (-46.3 percent ). The sole exception to this is semi-finished goods, with sales up to 465,161 tons by 47.7 percent. Imports of EU nations declined 5.4% to 1,331 million tons, while non-EU imports down 1.5% to 1,277 million tons. Of Italy's metal grades, carbon metal grew by 6.7%, stainless metal grew by 12.4% and special metal dropped by 19.8%.
Exit
Italy exported 1,749 million tons in the third month of this year, a rise of 13.4 percent compared to the same time in 2016. All the categories examined are increasing. The rise in raw materials is worth mentioning with an increase of 84.9 percent year on year to 62 417 tons. With regard to material destinations, sales in the EU rose (+ 23.7% to 1.368 billion tons), while sales beyond the EU declined (-12 percent to 381,057 tons). With regard to quality, carbon metal sales grew by 8,7 percent to 1,09 billion tons, stainless metal sales increased by 41,9 percent to 1,17771 tons and special metal sales rose by 50,5 percent to 158,551 tons (the sum of the three was less than the total). Exit).