India: SAIL offers 80,000 MT Pig Iron in Open Market

Steel Authority of India (SAIL), India’s largest steelmaker, is offering about 80,000 MT Steel grade Pig iron in the domestic market from its Rourkela (Odisha) plant through open sales offers.

Current offers are INR 20,100/MT (ex-works) for road and INR 20,200/MT for rail, with an additional discount of up to INR 2,000/MT for bulk quantity.

Specification
Grade: Basic
Total quantity: About 80,000 MT
PCM-I: About 30,000 MT (+/- 20%)
PCM-II: About 50,000 MT (+/- 20%)
Period of booking: 10-17 Mar’15

Discount on Pig Iron Purchase

Quantity 
Purchase

Discount on
Road Delivery
Discount Price
(by road)
Discount on
Rail Delivery

Discount Price
(by rail)

Up to 3,500 MT 20,100 No Discount
3,500 to 6,999 MT or 1 rake 1,500 18,600 1,500 18,700
7,000 to 10,999 MT or 2 rakes 1,700 18,400 1,700 18,500
10,500 to 13,999 MT or 3 rakes 1,900 18,200 1,900 18,300
14,000 and above or 4 rakes and more 2,000 18,100 2,00 18,200

Discount price in INR/MT
Prices are exclusive of taxes & duties and will be applicable as on dispatch date

Last week SteelMint reported that increasing supply of Pig iron by SAIL and other big steel manufacturers have worried the merchant Pig iron manufacturers.

Recently, another steel giant and primary Pig iron manufacturer, RINL has cut Pig iron prices by INR 1,000/MT for March deliveries. Falling Pig iron prices in the global market has led to lower realizations in exports, leading company to offer at reduced price of INR 19,300/MT, ex-works in the domestic market.

Pig Iron Prices as on 10 Mar’15

Particulars Offers (INR/MT) W-o-W
Roukela 18,500 – 1,000
Cuttack 18,500 – 300
Durgapur 19,400 0
Raigarh 20,800 0
Vizag 19,300 0
Hyderabad 20,900* – 100

*delivered price; rest all prices are on ex-works basis


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