By the end of June, the national rebar price index closed at 149.46 points, up 5.03% annually, compared with the same period last year, the price fell 12.72%.
Figure 1: Price Index Trend of Domestic Rebar and Concrete (Point)
Data Source: Cement Big Data (https://data.ccement.com/)
I. Supply and Demand
of Rebar (I) Steel mills started to pick up slightly. The supply of rebar is still at a low level
. In June, the market is expected to increase the support policy in the future, the trading sentiment has improved, and the overall inventory pressure is not high, so the operating rate of steel mills has generally rebounded. By the end of June, the blast furnace operating rate of 247 domestic steel plants was 84.09%, up 1.73 percentage points on a month-on-month basis; the domestic electric furnace operating rate was 67.60%, up 0.31 percentage points on a month-on-month basis; the national rebar rolling line operating rate was 70.90%, up 3.04 percentage points on a month-on-month basis.
Figure 2: Operating rate of blast furnace, electric furnace and rebar rolling line (%)
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