{"id":19861,"date":"2026-08-21T17:47:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/?p=19861"},"modified":"2026-08-23T17:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T17:59:48","slug":"us-hrc-supply-tightens-amid-major-mill-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/us-hrc-supply-tightens-amid-major-mill-outages\/","title":{"rendered":"US | HRC supply tightens amid major mill outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/resources.news.e.abb.com\/images\/2023\/11\/3\/0\/Finished_steel_coils_HR_._Image_ABB.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5006245032360621;width:340px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">Planned US mill maintenance from September to December is expected to remove approximately 1.01-1.04 million short tons of HRC production. Spot availability is already limited, with lead times reaching 6-12 weeks. Midwest HRC climbed to $1,202.40 per short ton, its highest level since May 2022. The outages could keep prices supported despite increasing imports.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18968\" style=\"width:194px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1.jpg 567w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-400x133.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-430x143.jpg 430w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-150x50.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned US mill maintenance from September to December is expected to remove approximately 1.01-1.04 million short tons of HRC production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iron"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Author","author_link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/author\/ghazizadeh\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/category\/iron\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Ferrious<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Planned US mill maintenance from September to December is expected to remove approximately 1.01-1.04 million short tons of HRC production.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19862,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19861\/revisions\/19862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}