Connect your teams with American Steel Market Intelligence
CRU’s American steel market intelligence provides context for commercial, pricing and planning discussions within steel-producing companies. Review which information your teams already use, how it supports their work and whether another team has a specific additional need.
Our analysis of metals markets connects developments in steel supply and demand with raw-material costs and trade policy. Whether a team follows sheet markets or reviews steel beam pricing, start with its specific products, 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 and planning
Steel producers face different market questions depending on what they produce, how they operate and where they sell. Start with your priority products and regions, then review the information relevant to each team.
Commercial and pricing teams
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 teams
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 planning teams
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 producer teams working with US Midwest hot-rolled coirovides 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 current services, covered series, authorised users and permitted applications. This helps establish whether the next step is making better use of existing access or discussing a distinct 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.
Your account contact can help review your current services, covered price series, available historical data and authorised users. Start with this review to understand whether your team can make better use of existing access or has a distinct additional requirement.
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.
Forecast inclusion depends on your account and package. CRU offers steel forecasting capabilities, but your account contact should confirm the available products, horizons and access before they are presented as part of your service.
Do not assume access can be extended to additional users or teams. Review authorised access and licensing terms with your account contact before sharing information or arranging additional access.
Ask your account contact to confirm what is available under your agreement and the team’s delivery capacity. Tailored support and analyst interaction should not be assumed to be included.
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 and market analysis and forecasts, CRU offers events and webinars to help producer teams stay informed as market conditions change.
Review current access and usage with your CRU account contact, and discuss whether another team has a specific additional requirement
CRU Risk Navigator
A broader view of raw-material risk for steel producers
Changes in raw-material prices and availability can affect production costs and planning assumptions. CRU Risk Navigator brings risk assessments and supporting market context for tracked materials into one view, helping production and planning teams identify developments that deserve closer attention. Discuss its relevance and access with your CRU account contact.
Learn moreWhy Choose CRU?
A steel price is more useful when you understand what it represents, what is driving it and how the market may develop. CRU brings these perspectives together to support your manufacturing sourcing and cost-planning discussions.
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