European Costs and Margin Databoard

The interactive databoard for costs and margins in European steel product markets consists of average monthly steel product costs, prices and margins from 2024 covering Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland. All the information and calculations in the study allow readers to assess the current EU steel market situation and to build a short-term cost and consumption forecast. All financial data are expressed in a common currency - US dollars.

The cost and margin data cover steel products produced by BOFs, EAFs (from scrap and HBI) and by re-rollers for the domestic and export markets. The interactive databoard consists of cost and margin data for the following steel products:

A detailed cost structure by items is demonstrated for steel (excluding fixed costs) and HRC (including fixed and CO2 costs). The cost structure items are the following: iron ore/pig iron/HBI, coking coal, scrap, ferroalloys, fuel and energy, electrodes, fixed costs, and CO2 profits or losses.

The following information is used for cost and margin calculations:

• monthly average prices for raw materials (SteelOrbis, Fastmarkets, Argus, Kallanish source);
• monthly average prices for finished products (SteelOrbis, Fastmarkets);
• production volumes and fixed costs (financial/annual reports of public companies, SteelOrbis calculations);
• yield rates of raw material (SteelOrbis calculations, subsidiary reports of public companies);
• transportation and freight costs (public reports of transportation companies, SteelOrbis calculations, Fastmarkets);
• volumes of raw material purchases by type and country (GTT, Trademap).