Baosteel Desheng High-quality Stainless Steel Green Industry Base Project - Steel Capacity Replacement Project is located in Jin’gang Industrial Zone, Luoyuanwan Development Zone, Luoyuan County, Fuzhou City.

The output of stainless steel has increased since November as the power rationing has been eased. However, downstream producers’ consumption thinned, suppressing stainless steel prices. Stainless steel mills suffered losses as prices of raw material like ferrochrome and NPI were at high levels, in spite of correction. Especially, #200-series stainless steel prices have declined 2,900 yuan/mt or 22.3% since early November.

Shanghai base metals all trended higher on Monday morning boosted by the unexpectedly low US employment data. Meanwhile, their counterparts on LME trended mixed.

Shanghai nonferrous metals closed all in the positive territory as the US debt risks have been contemporarily mitigated.

Affected by the dual control of energy consumption and the power rationing policy, a steel mill in Guangxi will reduce its hot rolled coil output by about 30% in October, and the same proportion of customer orders for the month will be adjusted.

Shanghai base metal basically trended lower on Wednesday morning against the lower-than-expected US CPI increase in August. Meanwhile, their counterparts on LME mostly cruised higher.

According to SMM survey, import profits rose as the SHFE/LME nickel price ratio advanced this week. In addition, traders that had locked in the SHFE/LME price ratio last week moved goods into the domestic market for delivery.

Shanghai base metals mostly fell in the evening trading on Tuesday as the US dollar index rebounded for two consecutive days.

China's import volume of unwrought copper and copper semis in August were 393,900 mt, a year-on-year decrease of 41.07%, and a month-on-month decrease of 7.2%. The imports from January to August were 3.61 million mt, a year-on-year decrease of 15.4%.

This is a roundup of news in the steel industry for last week.