Lisa Reisman

AMM Conference Addresses Light-Weighting Threat to Steel Industry

by Lisa Reisman on May 7, 2012

Style:    Category: Automotive, Ferrous Metals, Manufacturing, Metal Fabricated Parts, Non-ferrous Metals, Product Developments

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Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the American Metal Market Galvanized and Coated Steel conference held in Detroit. The conference logically examined some of the underlying market dynamics of materials used in automotive production – hot dipped galvanized steel and aluminum. And clearly the regulatory environment stemming from both new CAFE standards as [...]

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Will Amazon Disrupt MRO and Industrial Supply Markets?

by Lisa Reisman on April 24, 2012

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My other half just penned a piece about a new B2B service offering likely to create substantial disruption in industrial manufacturing supply markets – Amazon Supply. That’s right, Amazon.com, that place we have all grown accustomed to purchasing a broad array of goodies (we actually buy all of our office supplies from Amazon) has now [...]

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New CME Midwest Aluminum Swap To Offer Price Stability

by Lisa Reisman on April 17, 2012

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Aluminum buyers will soon have a new commodity risk management tool at their disposal – the CME will shortly launch its Midwest Aluminum Swap futures contract. We view this as a huge opportunity for any buying organization sourcing semi-finished aluminum products within the United States. The contract will begin trading on April 30. Today, many [...]

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Steel Billet, 304 Stainless Scrap, SHFE Aluminum Prices Fall

by Lisa Reisman on April 12, 2012

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Chinese 304 Stainless Steel Scrap Prices Fall 3.7 Percent Chinese 304 stainless steel scrap saw the biggest price shift of the day in stainless prices, dropping 3.7 percent on April 11, 2012. For the fifth consecutive day, Chinese 304 stainless coil prices held flat near $3,000 per metric ton. Chinese 316 stainless coil prices saw [...]

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US Copper Producer Grade 110 Price Collapses, Gold and Silver Prices Up

by Lisa Reisman on April 12, 2012

Style:    Category: Metal Prices, MetalMiner IndX, Non-ferrous Metals, Precious Metals

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US Copper Producer Grade 110 Price Collapses The price of US copper producer grade 110 saw the biggest price shift of the day, dropping 5.2 percent on April 11, 2012. US copper producer grade 102 prices saw a one percent decline. Following two days of dropping rates, the cash price of Japanese primary copper flattened [...]

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The Role of Indexes and Longer-Term Fixed Prices

by Lisa Reisman on April 12, 2012

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I recently came across a newsletter article with great relevance to MetalMiner readers – How to Fix Index Based Pricing – that offered up three suggestions for individuals seeking to develop a price indexing schema for purchases. The author states a hypothesis often not articulated by the purchasing organization – having a “fixed, predictable price is just [...]

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MetalMiner Advisory Services: Targeted Metals Strategy and Cost Reduction Expertise

by Lisa Reisman on April 11, 2012

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MetalMiner (and our parent organization, Azul Partners) has been quietly building up a cool business the past few years. The only thing increasing faster at the moment than our revenue and cross-site traffic — we’re currently up to nearly 100,000 unique visitors and over 300,000 visits per month across our four sites — is the [...]

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Steel Prices Rising?

by Lisa Reisman on April 10, 2012

Style:    Category: Ferrous Metals, Metal Prices, MetalMiner IndX

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Time to check in on our performance regarding steel price forecasts and prognostications, which we tend to do in January of each year. Ever since I heard Jorge Vazquez of Harbor Aluminum suggest the notion of a “good month to buy aluminum” (which I found so peculiar, if not downright intriguing – you’ll have to [...]

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