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MSI Databases and Benchmarking
Plant Cost Models:
MSI uses among the most detailed plant cost models in the industry (we have attached several indicative models by process stage, converted into Excel® format, to provide you with a better sense of our capabilities in these areas).  Our models cover all major carbon flat rolled plants in the U.S. and numerous international plants.  As a secondary cross-check, we periodically supplement our own more detailed models with cost estimates of industry consultants.
Steel Plant Capacity Data Bases:
MSI maintains detailed electronic and hardcopy databases of essentially every steel plant in the world including extensive data on mill configurations by process stage, line speeds, horse power, gauge and width ranges, installation and upgrade dates, quality ratings, etc.
Steel Industry Supply, Demand (Product and Market) Data and Models:
MSI maintains detailed databases down to the end-market and micro-product levels for the U.S. and all major countries and regions worldwide.  Our databases in these areas go back a minimum of 20 to 30 years.  We subscribe to all major steel statistical sources (AISI, IISI (Brussels) , IISB (London), United Nations/ECE, OECD, Cancero (Mexico), Statistics Canada, Inst. Brasiliero de Sider., Ilafa, Eurostat, Statistics Bundesamt, Chambre Syndicate, Ministry of Industry (Russia), Japan Steel Federation, Korea I&S Assoc., Steel Scenario (India), Southeast Asia I&S Inst., Ministry of Metallurgical Industry (China), BHP (Australia), Iscor (S. Africa), Middle East I&S Inst.  We also supplement these first-level sources with those of other secondary vendors such as World Steel Dynamics, J. King Associates (London) and others.
Steel Price Data:
MSI uses and maintains extensive U.S. and international pricing data from various sources including Purchasing Magazine, American Metal Market, Brook Hunt (London), ISSB (London), Metal Bulletin, Customs Bureau, and from our own surveys and consulting work.
Steel Company Financial Databases:
MSI maintains a comprehensive library of quarterly, annual and 10K reports for nearly 500 U.S. and international companies in the steel, service center, end-market raw materials, and other related sectors going back, in some cases, over 30 years.  Much of this data is in our comprehensive World Steel Company Financial and Operational Database covering over 200 U.S. and world steel and related companies over 10 to 20 years through the current date and from between 50 and 250 line item categories (sample in Excel form attached) from production, operating rates, labor cost and productivity, sales, and profits, to other income statement, balance sheet and cash flow items.
Labor Cost Databases:
MSI’s labor cost data and related analytical tools are derived from various sources including AIS-1 labor and financial detail reports, our company financial data bases (see earlier item  above), the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and our own research and private consulting work.  MSI has extensive and recent working knowledge of details (although company specifics are confidential,) relating to such issues as the last standing USWA offer to LTV, new labor issues with ISG, Wheeling Pittsburgh, Gevena Steel, Republic Technologies, Duferco Farrell, DSC (former McLouth, CSC, and many others.
Economic and End-Market Databases:
MSI subscribes to several U.S. and international economic databases of Standard & Poors’ DRI/WEFA (C. Plummer was formerly a Sr. VP of the WEFA Group), economy.com (a 100-employee, 1990-off-shoot of the WEFA Group), Blue Chip Forecasts, Economist Intelligence Service, and numerous other sources.  In addition, MSI subscribes to several dozen end-market statistical sources including: Wards Automotive, Wards International, Assoc. of Home Appliance Mfgrs., Can Mfgrs. Assoc., NCCA, MBMA, W.F. Dodge, Preston Pipe Reports, Pipe Logix, MSCI, STINA, Work Boat, Railway Association and numerous other end-market sources.
General Research Library and Related Files:
MSI subscribes to over 100 trade journals and statistical sources from around the world.  For nearly 25 years, all articles have been meticulously dated, cut, photocopied and filed by category (topic, company, plant, product, raw material, process, end-market, etc.).  Through this process, MSI supports and maintains one of the largest and most comprehensive steel research libraries in the world., giving us one of our strongest competitive advantages   Including our financial data mentioned earlier, we have files on virtually every steel company, raw material company, steel product and production process, steel end-market, and steel-related labor-, energy-, and other- issue, in the world.