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wiredInUSA - May 2016
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INDEXThe European steel association, Eurofer, is
said to be collecting evidence of wire rod
dumping from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and
Turkey, prior to making a decision on filing
a complaint to the European Commission.
“The
rumors
about
the
possible
anti-dumping investigation into imported
wire rod have been circulating in the
market for about two weeks. It seems to be
part of the EU strategy to become more
[protectionist] when it comes to cheap
imports,” a trader told reporters at Prague’s
Eurometal conference. “Eurofer has not
sent any official complaints or other papers
to the EC yet, but the discussion is going on
within Eurofer,” another trader confirmed.
The monthly average of wire rod imports
into the European Union increased by 23
percent year-on-year to 139,000 tonnes in
2015, according to Eurofer’s data. In the
first two months of 2016, average import
levels of the material reached 144,000tpm.
Monthly average wire rod exports from
Ukraine to the EU have increased by 24
percent, year-on-year, to 31,000 tonnes
last year, and reached 35,000tpm in
January-February 2016.
Anti-dumping question
ArcelorMittal’s WireSolutions wire drawing
division inBourg-en-Bresse, France, is tosupply
the steel wire rope for France’s first urban
cable car, currently under construction
across the Penfeld river, in the city of Brest.
WireSolutions will supply four 50mm full-lock
coil ropes with 12 optical fibers in each rope,
and two 25mm haul ropes.
A press release said that ArcelorMittal will be
the sole supplier of the ropes, one of only two
producers in Europe that integrates optic
fibers in full-lock coil (FLC) to enable data
transmission.
The FLC rope offers several functions in the
same component, thus enabling a cost
reduction for the customer.
Cable car ropes
The recent Eurometal conference in Prague