Domestic Stainless Steel Mills Face High Inventory Pressures, SMM Reports

Published: May 19, 2017 09:47
Inventories of finished goods at several domestic stainless steel plants are high, Shanghai Metals Market survey finds.

SHANGHAI, May 19 (SMM) – Inventories of finished goods at several domestic stainless steel plants are high, Shanghai Metals Market survey finds. 

The surveyed mills include several large private mills in east and south China. 

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Inventories of finished goods at one of surveyed private plants are sufficient for one-month production, and the plant told SMM that sales were poor. 

Another stainless steel mill in Fujian now holds half-a-month inventories after production cuts, down from more than one-month level seen in late April. 

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State-owned stainless steel plants, however, have no big inventory pressures, holding normal volumes, according to SMM survey. 

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