Steel Products Prices North America

Nucor Raises Galvanized Extras
Written by Brett Linton
December 22, 2020
On Monday, Dec. 21, Nucor notified customers of an upward revision to their galvanized steel coating extras, effective Feb. 6, 2021.
Nucor is the third mill to revise their galvanized coating extras recently, following NLMK and CSI two weeks ago.
SMU has done an analysis on the old and new extras, provided below. Nucor extras increased between 0 and 25 percent.

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