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Egypt's steel rebars see price hikes in August
Price hikes attributed to the rising cost of natural gas
Ahram Online Published in Ahram Online on 11 - 08 - 2014

Egypt's steel producers raised the monthly rebar prices in the domestic market by 4.2 in August, reported the state's Al-Ahram news website on Sunday.
Al-Ahram's Arabic news website cited Mohamed Hanafi, the director of the Metallurgical Industries Chamber (MIC) at Egypt's Industries Federation as saying that retail prices of locally produced steel rebars have jumped to LE5280 per tonne in August from LE5065 in July.
Hanafi has attributed the price increase to the government's decision to raise the cost of the natural gas, which is supplied to steel factories.
The decision became effective in July as a move to trim the state's energy subsidy bill, saw the price of natural gas for the iron, steel, aluminium, copper, ceramic and glass industries rise from LE28 million ($4 million) to LE49 million ($7) per million thermal unit.
Ezz Steel is the dominant steel producer in Egypt and the Middle East at large, with around 55 percent of the Egyptian steel market.
Solb Misr, along with Beshay Steel, share 35 percent of the market.
Smaller steel factories comprise the remaining 10 percent.
Hanafi also said that the steel row material billet has seen price hikes of LE70 ($10) per tonne in the global market last month, but according to the MIC monthly report, the billet prices remain unchanged since June selling at $530 per tonne.
On the other hand, Ahmed El-Zeiny the head of the building materials division at Cairo Chamber of Commerce told Ahram Online on Monday that producers have exaggerated in the price hikes
Accordingly, this would prompt the consumers to replace the local products with imported rebars from Turkey and Ukraine which are sold at LE4900 ($700) per tonne in the domestic market.
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The energy increase is estimated at LE20 ($3) per tonne, meaning that producing a tonne of steel rebars will cost LE100 ($14) instead of LE80 ($11) in terms of natural gas consumption,” El-Zeiny explained.
According to El-Zeiny, there 100,000 tonnes steel rebars at Damietta port to enter the domestic market soon.
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