MEPS: steelmaking plants of EU change approach for attraction of new orders

As reports analytical agency MEPS International Ltd. , the European prices of steel this month continued a tendency to decrease against weak demand in the majority of the sectors using steel. Number of transactions the small. Contract prices, on the contrary, remain rather stable from the first on the second half of the year. In recent months plants pursued aggressive price policy, seeking to attract not numerous available orders and by that to increase rolling programs. Wholesale discounts were offered for rather small amounts. Buyers, however, refrained, expecting...