Where and what are the profit margins along the entire product range for automotive steels?
Key automotive products covered include: high-strength steels (HSS), coated, tailor-welded blanks, tailored strip and tailor-rolled blanks, hydroforming and hot-forming. Part 2: Construction Steel A common problem faced by steel executives is that they have traditionally been removed from the decisions made by end-users in terms of the types of construction materials to be used. However, the global construction market trend is for more off-site manufacturing, more outsourcing of assembly processes and the introduction of pre-engineered and pre-fabricated buildings as the ultimate step in the process. This report explores the strategies that work best to achieve this. The aim of the report is not only to expose the varying profit margin mark-ups currently available between ex-works and delivered prices for commodity structural steels, but also explores the ‘downstream space’ of creating additional value by: (a) the participation of downstream manufacturing processes; (b) the transformat
