Newsletter 18 -August 2007

"Keeping you Informed"

Prices

(1st Jan 06 = 100 units)

                            From 1st August   (1st Jan) Remarks:

                                           2007      (2007)

Merchant Bar                     126        (112)    No increases, prices

(Rounds, Flats, Angles etc)                          stable.

Heavy sections                  157        (135)   No more increase

(Beams, Columns etc)                                 in the near future

Hollow Sections                  118       (118)  Prices stable.

(Box, Tubes etc)                                        

Supply

Merchant Bar supply is in the balance at present and if all the mill shutdowns and refits are successful then supplies could be uninterrupted. Heavy Sections continue to be in tight supply over the nect few months and hollow sections have a 10/12 week lead time from UK mills due to summer shutdowns.

Demand
July was a slow month overall for demand. We expect customer demand to remain at current levels over August and the summer period.

Tomrods Limited

The July floods have been replaced by August sunshine and we hope that demand picks up as well. As July is a holiday month we don not have too much to report, but we look forward to a busy August quoting all your enquiries.

Thank you for reading this and if you have any comments about Tomrods Ltd or our website please email the undersigned at johnt@tomrods.co.uk

John Thompson
Managing Director