In Europe, the price of stainless steel by the base price and alloy surcharge, base price is calculated according to the operating costs of the steel mills and the industry supply and demand ratio, the price is relatively stable World Steel Pipe News . The alloy surcharge is needed by the production of stainless steel raw materials (such as nickel, chromium), the proportion of the price calculation is made, and thus change with the changes in raw material prices.
In Europe, stainless steel industrial chain from steel mills, processing plants (center) and end-users, including World pipe network reported that the world's steel pipe network to provide the world's steel pipe network editor , most processing plants have a steel mill equity participation, which makes steel The plant has a close interest. Steel supplier directly to processing plants and end users, steel mills will give up some of the finishing production in favor of stainless steel for further processing by the processing plant on steel processing fees are essentially fixed, some agents through profit rebate in the form of marketing, general profits of the rebate in about 3% -5%. This industry chain makes more clear the profits of the steel mills, processing plants, agents, also very easy to understand the final transaction price, so that nickel prices soared plummet, end-users can be more clear whether the risk-averse .