Steel Products
Sample Lead Times by Producing Mill
Written by John Packard
August 7, 2013
Written by: John Packard
SMU thought our readers might be interested in what the domestic mills are “publishing” as lead times as of Monday of this week for new orders placed at that time. We have a number of mill lead times for you to review.
AK Steel has informed their
customers that their Middletown blast furnace is back in operation and running at normal levels. They told their customers they expect to be caught up on hot rolled orders by the end of August and cold rolled by the end of September. Lead times for new orders placed as of Monday were being quoted as follows:
Hot Rolled = 5 to 6 weeks
Cold Rolled = Late September out of Middletown, 3rd week of October for Rockport.
Galvanized = Early October
Severstal Columbus is advising their customer that their lead times for new orders placed as of Monday of this week:
Hot Rolled = Week ending September 7th (5 weeks).
Cold Rolled = Week ending October 12th (10 weeks).
Galvanized = Week ending September 21st (CR base is 7 weeks add one week for HR base).
Nucor Berkeley is advising their customers that their lead times as of Monday were as follows:
Hot Rolled = Week ending October 5th (48”-60” = 9 weeks)
Cold Rolled = Week ending September 28th (48”-60” = 8 weeks)
Galvanized = Week ending September 28th (48”-60” = 8 weeks).
NL MK USA quoted their customers the following lead times as of Monday:
Hot Rolled = Week of September 9th (6 weeks).
Cold Rolled = Week of October 7th (10 weeks).
Galvanized = Week of September 30th (9 weeks).
The Techs advised their customers that their lead times as of Monday of this week were as follows:
MetalTech – Galvanized = Week of September 15th (7 weeks)
Galvtech – Galvanized = Week of September 15th (7 weeks)
NexTech – Galvanized = Week of September 15th (7 weeks)
Number of weeks calculated from Monday of this week (counting this week as week 1).
John Packard
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