As of January 12, 2020, 304 stainless steel price is about $9 a kilogram.
The price of stainless steel scrap is generally determined by the demand for raw materials from local factories, so the price change of raw materials does not have the magnitude of the change under the certainty.The whole year of 2019 can be described as a year of ups and downs for stainless steel people, the whole year of stainless steel sales, although everyone says it is very difficult, the overall market is not like 2016-2017 as calm and unsurprising.
Reviewing the stainless steel market for the whole year of 2019 obviously there are 2-3 peaks and valleys of ups and downs throughout the year. From December 2018 304 hot rolled stainless steel price order price 13100 yuan / ton to the end of January 2019 for 13800 yuan / ton, after the Spring Festival on February 12, the price began to fall all the way down.
Expanded Information:
304 stainless steel material rust phenomenon, there may be several reasons:
1, chloride ions are widely available, such as salt/sweat stains/seawater/sea breeze/soil and so on. Stainless steel in the presence of chloride ions in the environment, corrosion is very fast, even more than ordinary mild steel. So the use of stainless steel environment requirements, and the need for frequent wiping, remove dust, keep clean and dry.
2, the United States has an example: an enterprise with an oak container containing a solution containing chlorine ions, the container has been used for nearly a hundred years, the nineties of the last century, plans to replace the oak material is not modern enough to use stainless steel to replace the 16 days after the container leaked due to corrosion.
Solid solution treatment: alloying elements are not dissolved into the matrix, resulting in the matrix organization of low alloy content, poor corrosion resistance.
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