World Cost Curve for Steel Sheet Plants

Revamped format with greater detail.

WSD's World Cost Curve (WCC) for 2008 is our 14th annual update. The WCC is:

Timely. We offer detailed raw material input prices and process-by-process costs. The cost figures each year are adjusted for changes in currency values, inflation, labor costs and raw material costs.

Authoritative. The format makes cost comparisons between the WCC data and your own steel plant data easy to understand. In the past year, we’ve had cost feedback from steel companies in most regions of the world. For China, details are provided for more than 28 steel companies -- thin-slab and traditional -- based on our extensive information network in that country.

Unique. We provide variable/fixed and home country/U.S. dollar costs at and through each process stage. The system also rates hot strip mills and cold-rolling mills on product quality.

The World Cost Curve - 2008 covers about 160 steel sheet plants in 45 countries with a combined gross capacity of about 510 million tonnes. It includes:

• A comprehensive computer printout that displays, for each plant, cost results by process (coke, BF, LS, slab, HRC, CRC) in the home country currency and U.S. dollars and details on the prices paid for key input items, yields, man-hours, financial costs, etc.
• A series of cost curves that analyze various aspects of the steelmaking and rolling process. The results are ranked for 24 parameters including operating and marginal costs at each process stage, raw material costs, labor costs and man-hours per tonne at various stages.
• A PC version on CD ROM that permits the user to change currency values, operating rates, man-hours per tonne, major material cost, other material cost, depreciation and interest expense, share of fixed costs and share of costs in U.S. dollars by category.

The World Cost Curve for Steel Sheet Plants sells for $9,000 to WSD subscribers and $14,000 to others. If you would like to purchase the World Cost Curve, please click here "Order Form".

For a sample of Steel Sheet World Cost Curve, please click here "FRWCC".