Posted on 01 Jul 2009
Japan’s Tokyo Steel has announced to increase the scrap purchasing price by ¥500~1,000/ton yesterday, the new H2 scrap price is at ¥25,000~26,000/ton.
The company increased the price by ¥1,000/ton on 17 June.
This is the fifth time for Tokyo Steel to raise the price, the price in June raised by ¥3,500~4,000/ton in total.