The impact on the global supply chain of imported steel pipe continues due to the rising cost of both scrap metal and hot roll coil (HRC), increasing vessel costs and the lack of shipping container availability. These cost pressures, coupled with unusually long delays at ports around the country related to the unloading, sorting and […]
Strut manufacturers have announced that due continued rising costs of raw materials, they will be implementing an increase of 10-25% on channel strut products. CRU, or Cold Rolled Steel, which is the raw material needed for strut production, has doubled in price since July 2020. This cost increase, being driven by general lack of availability […]
Due to Section 232 impacting domestic pricing and import pricing up to 25% on all incoming raw material, along with new trucking regulations which have caused freight costs to increase, mills have announced a 10-18% price increase, effective Monday April 30th, 2018. Click here to see all of our Strut products and our Strut list […]
Due to domestic mill increases from last week, a new Domestic Steel Pipe list price sheet is in effect now. Click here to see it. As a reminder, mills have announced the following increases last week: Continuous Weld: 3% Increase Sprinkler Pipe: 5% Increase Grade B ERW Pipe: 5% Increase Please call your United Pipe […]
