By Adam Aziz / theedgemarkets.com | December 9, 2016 : 7:18 PM MYT
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 9): The iron and steel industry should take advantage in the demand for steel products arising from mega infrastructure projects in Malaysia, says International Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Datuk Ahmad Maslan.
He said key developments such as Bandar Malaysia and Silicon Valley will increase demand for local steel, considering the volatile local currency which may affect the price of steel imports.
“The industry needs to look into opportunities from the announcements of so many government projects. The list goes on and on,” he said at a briefing after officiating at the Malaysia Steel Institute Human Resource Day.
Ahmad said the steel sector should also consider increasing production, as the industry is actually capable of fulfilling local steel demand with a surplus for export.
“The current demand for steel in our country is 10 million tonnes per year, with four million tonnes produced locally whereas another six million tonnes are imported. But our production capacity is actually 16 million tonnes per year.”
“The production was previously cut, partly due to under-pricing by China,” he said.
Over the past two years, local steel millers struggled to continue operation amid fluctuating global steel prices and dumping practices by manufacturers in countries like China and Vietnam.
However, safeguard measures taken by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry this year to impose import duty on select steel products, such as Cold Roll Coils (CRC) and reinforced bars have received mixed reaction by the industry players.
Ahmad said the safeguard measures can provide a level playing field for the manufacturers, and it is a step forward to slowly reduce import and go back into local produce.
“Manufacturers have requested for higher (import tax), but we feel the current rate at 13.9% on top of the initial five percent is fair,” Ahmad said, referring to manufacturers of reinforced steel bars.
“These measures will benefit the iron and steel industry as a whole,” he added.
Mycron Steel Bhd, a key manufacturer of CRC products, had previously said that anti-dumping duties imposed on certain international manufacturers “have more pros than cons”, in that these chase speculators and low-quality materials away from the local market.
"Ahmad said the steel sector should also consider increasing production, as the industry is actually capable of fulfilling local steel demand with a surplus for export"
If opportunity exist for capture of local market....the revenue of downstream manufacturers should go up first before affecting the midstream players.
Meaning Mycron's CRC consumer sales should go up first....
It all starts with finding a new client first..using existing inventory to sell to them....and then followed by more raw material procurement in a steady basis to satisfy this new recurring demand.
If take into consideration of impairment loss, Q416 net profit is 16.01Mil, Q117 net profit is just 7.856Mil. It is 51% net profit drop compare to last quarter. Even the CRC price is high but Mycron not able to deliver good quarter result. The recent price hike should due to speculation. Reminder to don't chase high, else you will regret.
Today is Friday and next week lots of people/fund managers will be on festive holiday...be careful and profit taking has been done this week as everyday going up and who is pushing it up,retailers selling mode since last week, foreign buyers what you think ? Dow Jones time to consolidate downwards once it hit or near to 20,000 points, Trumps era is approaching Jan 2017 and all uncertainties, i think Malaysia market wont go far at time being, what say u ?
KKY is buying this also...! be careful don't trap again..! Ha
[quoted] The Mycron price chart shows the pivoting or turning point from down to up trend was 81sen on 7th or 8th Dec. It started dropping from Rm 1.16 per share. The high and low difference is Rm 1.16 – 81 sen = 35 sen. I started to buy it at 81 sen hoping that it will recover to Rm 1.16 a gain of 35 divided by 81 = 43%. The last closing price on 16th Dec was 94 sen, a gain of 13 sen. I have to decide when I should start selling to make profit. [unquoted]
Yep Simple man. You are right. So many people have fallen to KYY's trap. Last week KYY posted in his blog that he is picking up Gadang at the lowest abt 2 wks ago. After the qtr results in Oct he condemn the share to sell. . Another trap
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At the moment support price at 0.670, everytime drop to price will rebound. Volume low but someone control the share price easily. Camp at low better