Review your steel coverage
Connect your business with American steel market intelligence
CRU’s American steel market intelligence provides context for pricing, negotiations and planning within steel-producing businesses, including iron and steel mills and ferroalloy manufacturers. Review how your business uses its existing information and whether specific functions have additional requirements.
Our analysis of metals markets connects developments in steel supply and demand with raw-material costs and trade policy. Start with your business’s specific products, operating route, regions and information requirements.
CRU stays up to date with developments across global steel markets. For teams assessing production-input costs, our published steelmaking raw materials and thermal coal methodology explains how relevant raw-material price assessments are produced.
Bring market insight to pricing, negotiations and planning
Production businesses face different market questions depending on their products, operating routes and sales markets. Start with the pricing, negotiation and planning decisions your business needs to support, then identify the information relevant to each function.
Commercial pricing and customer negotiations
Put selling conditions into context with relevant steel price assessments and market analysis. Review the products and regions that matter to customer discussions and contract reviews.
Market analysis and business planning
Connect finished-steel market developments with relevant movements in metallics, scrap and alloys. Explore how supply, demand and input-market conditions relate to your business.
Procurement and production planning
Review the production inputs relevant to your operating route. Consider available prices, market balances and forecasts alongside internal purchasing and planning assumptions, with coverage and access confirmed for your account.
CRU’s steel coverage spans finished products and production inputs, including sheet, plate, long products, stainless steel flat products, metallics and steelmaking raw materials. Review which price assessments, monitors and forecasts match your teams’ requirements and existing account access.
CRU steel price assessments and market analysis coverage
Understand the benchmark used in your market
For production businesses with exposure to US Midwest hot-rolled coil, our service, The CRU, provides a weekly, transaction-based price index.
Review its specifications, geographic scope and reference period to assess its relevance to your commercial or market-analysis work. The carbon steel methodology explains the relevant assessment process.
If your business uses a CRU reference in customer contracts, confirm the appropriate licensing permissions rather than assuming subscription access covers contractual use.
FAQs
Contact your CRU account manager to review your current services, covered price series, available historical data, authorised users and permitted applications. This helps establish whether your business can make better use of existing access or has a specific additional requirement.
Commercial, pricing, sales, market-analysis, procurement and planning teams may have different information requirements. Review their current applications and existing access with your account contact before considering additional coverage.
Ask your account contact to confirm whether the available assessments match the beam products, specifications and geographic markets relevant to your business. Do not assume that existing steel coverage includes every structural product or region.
CRU publishes separate methodologies for carbon steel, stainless steel and steelmaking raw materials and thermal coal. Review the guide relevant to your materials to understand the specifications, scope and assessment process.
Access to forecasts, additional users or teams, and analyst support depends on your service and agreement. Confirm availability and permissions with your CRU account manager before extending access or arranging support.
Yes. Contact your CRU account manager to review your existing access against the products, markets and decisions relevant to your business.
Review coverage for your priority products and markets
Whether your team is assessing steel selling conditions, reviewing production-input costs or updating planning assumptions, we can help you explore relevant CRU coverage.
Alongside steel prices, market analysis and forecasts, CRU offers events and webinars to help production businesses follow changing market conditions.
Review current access and usage with your CRU account contact, and discuss whether another team has a specific additional requirement.
Why choose CRU?
CRU combines price assessments, market analysis and forecasts to support pricing, negotiations and planning across your business. Confirm relevant coverage and access with your account contact.
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