MEPS’s new ‘Market in Minutes’ podcast focuses on a Southern Europe steel sector where business models are changing amid the continued market slowdown.

Market analyst Benedicte Mikolajczak describes a steel supply chain that is “suffering the effects of an automotive sector slowdown” in the short-form episode, which is part of MEPS’s wider Speaking of Steel podcast series.

Mikolajczak summarised some of the latest findings from MEPS’s research in Italy and Spain in conversation with MEPS managing editor Tom Sharpe. Her insight draws on commentary on the region’s steel market, along with flat and long product prices, price indices and 12-month forecasts, which can be found in MEPS’s monthly European Steel Review.

The topics featured in December’s ‘Market in Minutes’ podcast were:

• An automotive sector slowdown
• EU import safeguard quotas and their near-term influence on supply
• Steelmakers’ production cuts: will they align supply with demand
• Changing business models in the steel industry’s supply chain
• Steel demand resulting from Valencia’s flood reconstruction works