Domestic

There has been little or no change since August’s report. Pricing on domestic malleable products recently experienced a 6.0 percent increase, principally driven by rising scrap costs. The domestic market is stable and witnessing a higher level of requests for “Made in the U.S.A.” products. The manufacturers have ample capacity to meet this uptick as well as any potential acceleration of these requests.

Import

There has been little or no change since August’s report, although import supply is experiencing a disruption as one of the primary Chinese manufacturers is in the process of moving its plant.

The American Supply Association (ASA) and its Industrial Piping Division (IPD) is the national organization serving wholesaler-distributors and their suppliers in the industrial and mechanical pipe-valve-fitting industry.  As a powerful alliance of channel partners, we provide a forum for your upstream trading partners to exchange critical information and address key issues.

In particular, ASA’s IPD members constantly check the pulse of the materials and commodities they proudly supply to you.  ASA’s IPD members are knowledgeable industry leaders, and those who volunteer their service on the IPD Executive Council compile and prepare the IPD Commodity Reports.  The Reports contain some of the most current and qualified market data and information available from the industry’s leading manufacturers and distributors about emerging trends and other price-influencing actions and events.