MEPS Steel Product Price Levels across 2008 - 2009

The following slides give site visitors a quick tour of the Steelonthenet.com website...

But before we go any further, please note that when browsing you can go to our home page at any time by clicking on our logo at the top left-hand side of every page. Also, you may wish to try out our powerful search facility, which is at the top right-hand side of each page ['Search Site'].

But now - on with the tour ...

The site has three main sections plus a general area called 'MEMBERS & MORE'. The 3 main sections are organised as follows:

1) INFORMATION section: including world steel news, international prices, production reports [newspaper image]...

2) CONTACT NETWORK section: including event information, a free message board, job postings [people around globe image]...

3) EXPERT SUPPORT section: including management consulting services, feasibility studies, reports for purchase [professional advisers image].

Let us start off with Section 1: INFORMATION. Please click on the arrow above to continue.

You are now in the INFORMATION section, on the World Steel Industry News page. This page brings you the latest international steel industry news.

If you look in the left hand menu bar, you will see a selection of other sub-menus, under INFORMATION. These include 'More Headlines' where you will see 'Raw Materials' , 'Qualities' and other links.

These links take you to related steel news reports ... in the case of 'Raw Materials', leading to the latest news about scrap, iron ore, coal, ferroalloys etc.

Clicking on 'Qualities' takes you to the latest news on engineering steels, silicon steels, stainless steels, etc.

'Regions [BRIC]' leads site visitors to the latest steel industry news from Brazil, Russia, India and China.

'End-Use Industries' takes visitors to news reports from the auto, appliance, construction, fabrication, oil and gas and other steel-consuming industries [sectors that are important drivers of steel demand].

Finally, 'Commercial Info' leads visitors to the latest news on topics such as ArcelorMittal, steel pricing, steel industry earnings reports - and more.

Still under INFORMATION, if you look under the 'Steel Statistics' sub-menu, you will come across a link to 'Production Data'. That gets you to the page that is currently shown, which has the latest world steel production reports, published monthly.

At the foot of the page, you can find older copies of these reports.

Under INFORMATION, you will also see 'Steel Prices' under the 'Steel Statistics' sub-menu, which gets you to the page that is currently shown.

The INFORMATION section of the website has many other data pages like this. If you click on 'Input Costs' for example, you will see the latest coal, coke, natural gas, iron ore and scrap prices. That commodity prices page also leads site visitors to financial models that illustrate the cost of liquid steel production in $/tonne via the integrated and electric arc steelmaking process routes.

Under 'Perspectives' perhaps try clicking on 'Memo from Moscow', which will take you to our free monthly report on steel industry developments in Russia and Ukraine.

By the way, if you ever get lost on the site, the so-called 'breadcrumbs' near the top of each page [You are here: www.steelonthenet.com >] will shown you exactly where you are.

Under 'FeA / Non-Ferrous' (still under INFORMATION) you can click on 'Ferroalloys' to check the very latest ferroalloy price charts for ferrochrome, ferosilicon, ferromolybdenum, ferromanganese and other ferro-alloys....

Non-ferrous newsfeeds and other base metal price charts may also be accessed from that sub-menu.

But let us turn now to the second area of the site: this is the NETWORKING SECTION ...

From this point on, you may need to scroll down to see the menu items.

We are now in the second main section of the website, called NETWORKING. This section consists of the second block of links in the left-hand menu bar, located under the block labelled INFORMATION which we have just reviewed.

Industry conferences can be a great way to develop one's contact network. If you look under 'Industry Events' at the 'Meetings' link, you will be able to access the latest list of forthcoming international steel industry conferences and similar events shown on this page.

Still under NETWORKING, if you click under 'Forums' on 'Message Board', that link will take you to our notice board page where you may post a steel industry announcement for others to see. In case you are wondering, Y! in the menu bar is short for Yahoo! We also run quite a big Yahoo steel group (over 1850 members). Please feel free to make use of that service too, to promote your business or to develop your contact network still further.

Incidentally, if you are looking for a career change, why not click on the 'Jobs' section to check out the latest international appointments?

Otherwise, let's now continue the Tour to Section 3: EXPERT SUPPORT

We are now in the third main section of the website, called EXPERT SUPPORT. Under the 'Advisers' sub-menu of Section 3, you will find details of our management consulting services, as provided by our parent company Metals Consulting International Limited (MCI).

This area of the website will also provide you with information about the feasibility study support and other assistance our technical experts can provide.

All our Consultants work to fixed daily fee rates to a job specification that is always agreed with the client in advance. Email us at MCI@steelonthenet.com for a free, no-obligation quote...

The EXPERT SUPPORT area also contains a 'Reports for Sale' section, where you may purchase or subscribe to various leading reports on international steel market, raw material, and pricing developments; and other specialist steel and related topics.

That almost completes the Site Tour - but there are just a few other useful tips to mention and pages to show you before we end. These are under our general section called MEMBERS & MORE...

The MEMBERS & MORE section is the 4th (or bottom) block of links on the menu bar.

If you look in this area, you will find our user registration page listed under the 'Member Services' sub-menu. Registration is free. Simply fill in your details to receive news of steel industry report promotions and other special offers. Login in later with your user name and password, and get free access to even more steel industry information, free news alerts and other reports.

Also under MEMBERS & MORE you will find 'Ferrosearch' under the 'Help' sub-menu. Ferrosearch is our own steel industry search engine, which crawls thousands of steel industry websites so that you don't have to. Ferrosearch is free. Use it to find steel companies / steel products / steel services / industry contacts when you get stuck ... with our compliments.

Under 'Help' you will also find a Technical Glossary of steel industry terms. If you don't know what a 'cobble' is, this is the place to look.

Finally, under MEMBERS & MORE there is also a submenu labelled 'Site Information' where you will find our sitemap [shown here], as well as our privacy policy, contact information and answers to other FAQs.

That ends the Site Tour. We hope you found the Tour useful.

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