Steel plate prices in the United States are stable, with market participants reporting lackluster restocking rates at service centers and short lead times at mills.
"It appears that the prices are stalling out," one plate consumer said."For the past two or three weeks, [the plate price] has been firm, with no major change one way or the other," a southern distributor said. "We have been busy but there is a lot of material out there, and we have not seen...