Forecasts of Domestic Steel Pipe Consumptions in 2012 and Relevant Hot Spots

Detailed are the 2012 forecasts for steel tubular product consumptions by various domestic in-dustries.Also dealt with in the article are relevant hot spots concerning development of domestic steel pipe-making industry,particularly the welded tubing field.Furthermore,it is forecast that in the year of 2012,the develop-ment trend of the steel tube market in the country be generally chatracterised as “demand rate be slowed down,prices be fluctuated,and small profit era be continuned”,while the market running trend feature “first going up,and later going down”.