Prices of steel keeps product unaffected in Feb in Tokyo

Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co Ltd, Japan's best electric-arc furnace steelmaker, on Monday said it will hold steel item costs relentless in February due to a flimsier abroad market. This is the second month the organization kept costs unaltered for the majority of its steel items, including its fundamental H-shaped beams.

For February, costs for steel bars, including rebar, will stay at 69,000 yen ($629) a ton while H-shaped beams will likewise remain at 89,000 yen ($812) a ton. "We will keep costs unfaltering as the abroad steel advertise remains generally powerless however we think the costs there are at the base zone," Tokyo Steel Managing Director Kiyoshi Imamura told columnists at a preparation.

Shanghai steel rebar costs have declined around 9 percent since a year ago's top in mid-August to around 3,600 yuan ($530) per ton.

"Steel markets in China and Southeast Asia may get after China's Lunar New Year occasion," he stated, alluding to the long occasion planned for early February when a huge number of Chinese travel back home for family gatherings. Domestic request, then, is relied upon to remain solid, with a progression of development ventures for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, redevelopment extends in the Tokyo metropolitan region and plans to manufacture new lodgings the country over to meet the developing number of remote voyagers, Imamura included. Tokyo Steel's estimating is nearly viewed by Asian adversaries, for example, South Korea's Posco and Hyundai Steel, and China's Baoshan Iron and Steel Co Ltd (Baosteel) .

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