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Paul Bartholomew delivered the presentation at the 2014 Mining the Pilbara Conference. The 2014 Mining the Pilbara Conference explored current projects and regulatory updates in the Pilbara region. For more information about the event, please visit: http://www.informa.com.au/pilbaramining14
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© 2013 Platts, McGraw Hill Financial. All rights reserved.
Steelmaking and iron ore dynamics in the Asian region
Paul Bartholomew, Managing Editor, Australia, Platts
Mining the Pilbara, Port Hedland
July 9-10, 2014
Disclaimer
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Introduction to Platts
Platts is a publishing company • Wholly owned subsidiary of McGraw-Hill Financial
• Standard & Poor’s is sister company
• NYSE listed
• Specialized in publishing news and prices for markets since 1909
• Platts acquired Steel Business Briefing (SBB) in July 2011 – The Steel Index (TSI) was part of that deal and continues to operate independently
• Our assessments are widely used as benchmarks in oil, gas, petrochemical, agribusiness, shipping and metals markets
• We assess the value of physical commodities and financially-settled derivatives (swaps and futures)
Agenda
Macro & fundamentals • The iron ore supply picture
• Chinese steel demand
• Potential impact of China’s environmental plans on steel/iron ore
• A few market observations
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Where is this supply coming from? Iron ore production
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• Decade long expansion program in Australia bearing fruit • Fortescue major new player – new tons from Rio and BHP • Vale has struggled to lift output
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Vale 307.9 -3% 300 320 400
Rio 267.7 7 295 320 350
BHP 186.2 15 225 245 270
FMG 126.5 86 155 170 170
Anglo 42.4 -2 45 50 70
Roy Hill - - - 15 55
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What’s next in the supply pipeline?
• Vale the big question mark – approval delays at S11D (90 mil mt/year) • BHP, Fortescue expansion incremental tons from next year • Supply takes a breather from end of next year…until 2018? • More project delays, struggles elsewhere…
Source: Company reports, analyst reports, Platts estimates
Weak steel markets, plentiful iron ore has squeezed prices – “It’s a buyer’s market!”
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Platts 62% and 58% Fe iron ore fines US$/mt CFR
Source: Platts
• Supply glut hit sooner than expected • Iron ore prices have fallen by 25-30% this year • Very active spot market in March-May, producers discounting, some non-performance of contracts • High port stocks (116 mil mt on July 4) • Impacting restocking cycles – supply is always there
Iron ore market dynamics
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Will Modi’s India return to the iron ore export market?
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• India no longer a major contributor to seaborne market due to mining, export bans • Post-election signs supportive of steel, but 300 mil mt/year capacity by 2025 unlikely
(needs $200 bn investment!!) • Steel lobby remains strong - Export tax on pellet exports (5%) • Could import more this year (JSW, Tata)
Source: China Customs
Mil mt China’s iron ore import sources
What about Chinese domestic iron ore?
• Small miners account for 40% of output (CISA); 65% of Chinese mines have capacity below 1 mil mt/year (SMM); 70% of output is controlled by steel mills (Citi); SME miners produce 80%, and larger miners 20% (China Hanking)
• More production underground, more expensive and more difficult to mine, grades falling (31% Fe in 2004, 21.5% Fe now, CISA), wages rising; miners subject to environmental pressures
• Inland mines more protected from the import market
• So where is cost curve? It was $120/mt…then $100/mt…now $95/mt?!! How much is ‘sticky’?
• Small mines, concentrators closing – Time will tell if support around $95/mt
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What about ‘next generation’ supply?
• Mills seeking vertical integration, diversify away from majors
• Posco, NSSMC; Tata Steel more efficient in India than EU
• New projects come with more risk, remote regions, fewer brownfield sites, lack infrastructure
• Capital costs estimated at around $250/mt – What’s the incentive long-run iron ore price? (Depends how big and how cost-effective you are…)
• Simandou
• Is Chinese SOE appetite waning? (Baosteel)
“China seems to have turned the
investment tap off this year”
Australian coal company CEO
“We’re not seeing the Chinese anymore”
Australian iron ore developer chairman
11 CITIC Pacific’s Sino Iron magnetite project in Australia
Chinese steel – the demand side
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Baosteel’s Shanghai works
Steel output, iron ore surprised in 2013
• Chinese steel output grew 7.5% y-o-y in 2013
• Easily absorbed new import volumes
• Domestic iron ore production unscathed
• Property-sector restocking over H2 supported prices (62% Fe averaged $133/mt CFR)
• Leadership change helped sentiment
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China monthly iron ore imports (Mil Mt)
But a different story so far in 2014…
Mil Mt Additional tons y-o-y Growth y-o-y %
Jan-May 2012 308.7 25.3 9
Jan-May 2013 322.2 13.5 4.4
Jan-May 2014 384.7 62.5 19.4
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Mil Mt Growth y-o-y %
2012 725 4.1
2013 779 7.5
2014 e 800 2.7
May 2014 821 annualized 5.4
But crude steel production weak…recovery in May, June
Iron ore imports surged over Q1 this year
Source: NBS
Steel output, prices normally soften in Q3
2012 Y-o-Y change Q-o-Q change 2013 Y-o-Y change Q-o-Q change 2014
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Q-o-Q change
Jan-Mar 4253 -8.6 1 4075 -4.2 6 3413 -16.2 -2.1
Apr-Jun 4209 -11.7 -1 3593 -14.6 -11.8
Jul-Sep 3648 -21.1 -13.3 3582 -1.2 -0.3
Oct-Dec 3843 -8.7 5.3 3485 0.05 -2.7
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2012 Y-o-Y change Q-o-Q % change 2013 Y-o-Y change
Q-o-Q % change 2014
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Jan-Mar 149.7 -16.8 5.6 148.4 -1 21 120.4 -10.5
Apr-Jun 141.2 -20.4 -5.7 116.2 -17.7 -21.6
Jul-Sep 113.2 -36.2 -19.8 132.7 17.2 14.2
Oct-Dec 122.3 -13.8 8 134.6 10 1.4
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Quarterly average iron ore prices ($/mt CFR)
2012 Q-o-Q change Y-o-Y change 2013 Q-o-Q change Y-o-Y change 2014 Q-o-Q change Y-o-Y change
Jan-Mar 175.6 10 4 191.7 9 9.1 194 3.2 1.2
Apr-Jun 185.8 5.8 4 197.3 2.9 6.2
Jul-Sep 179.4 -3.4 1.6 197.2 0 9.9
Oct-Dec 175.7 -2.1 9.8 188.3 -4.5 7.2
Total 716.5 774.5 8.1
Chinese crude steel production (Mil mt)
Source: Platts, NBS
• Last year abnormally strong – crash didn’t happen
Weak sentiment in China
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• End-user markets patchy – manufacturing, auto, shipbuilding - property especially • Sales of new homes fell 10% y-o-y in January-April; real estate investment hit a 57-month low • Construction (35% of steel consumption) weak going into hot months • Credit tight, shadow banking clampdown • No expectation of much government help, mini-stimulus only to meet GDP target of 7.5% • Difficult to see why the rest of the year will replicate 2013 – 2% output growth in 2014
Source: Platts, SBB
Platts China Steel Sentiment Index - July
The Platts China Steel Sentiment Index Survey - July 2014 (a figure over 50 indicates expansion; under 50 indicates contraction)
July Change from
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Platts China Steel Sentiment Index (Reflects New Orders) 45.90 -6.03 51.93
New Domestic Orders 46.71 -5.99 52.70
New Export Orders 36.42 -5.31 41.73
Additional Sentiment Categories:
Steel Production 46.43 -12.95 59.38
Inventories
Mill Inventories 46.43 5.80 40.63
Trader Inventories 39.35 4.18 35.17
Price Expectations
Domestic Long Steel Products Prices 50.00 4.55 45.45
Domestic Flat Steel Products Prices 62.73 27.10 35.63
Export Steel Prices 47.72 7.91 39.81 17
• Chinese steel market expects fewer orders this month; steel output to fall; inventories to rise – though is oddly bullish on near-term steel prices.
• Wishful thinking?
Steel margins improving…but!
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• Larger coastal mills making RMB100/mt net profit on domestic HRC sales • Some mills believe RMB200/mt is a possibility if steel prices improve • Encourages more production which then dampens prices (Hebei mills lifted utilization
rates to 88% at end-June from 85% at end-May.) • But one major mill described its profits as “meagre” still • Market sentiment is that prices will fade over the back-half of 2014 • But some mills starting to fail
Source: Platts
Indicative margins
China’s perennial steel overcapacity challenge – what’s being done?
Environmental measures
• Consolidation of steel sector no longer driven by BF size or through forced M&A
• Instead, Beijing has tightened supervision of polluting companies to improve air quality – especially steel! China is serious about pollution – It’s a social issue!!
• Higher costs for mills – Eg, New sinter & dust cleaning equipment can add another RMB100/mt to output costs
• Blocking of new land approvals, leases and bank financing
• Shadow banking clampdown – accounts for 1/4 to 1/3 of corporate finance
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Chinese steel capacity….(cont)
Capacity closures
• National target of 80 million mt over six provinces:
• Hebei (close to Beijing!), Liaoning, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Shandong and Jiangxi
• Timeframe vague (5 years?)
• Hebei - 60 million mt by end-2017 (of which 15 million mt by-end 2014)
• Around 24 million mt/year of new BF capacity commissioned in 2013
• More efficient mills could lift utilization rates
• But mills starting to fail - Haixin, Xilin, Tranvic, and Qifeng Steel
• Net result: Not much impact on capacity but should act as a brake on runaway overcapacity
“Some 70% of Chinese mills won’t be able to meet their environmental targets,” Li Xinchuang, China Iron & Steel Association…”but it will happen, slowly”
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Is there demand in Asia outside of China?
Apparent steel consumption among 'ASEAN 6' Metric tons
2012 2013E % change
Indonesia 12,499,875 14,329,194 14.60%
Malaysia 8,921,628 9,975,396 11.80%
Philippines 6,008,075 6,757,528 12.50%
Singapore 3,825,566 4,296,809 12.30%
Thailand 16,380,422 16,773,812 2.40%
Vietnam 10,956,000 11,875,000 8.40%
Total 58,591,566 64,007,739 9.20%
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• SEASI steel consumption expected to keep growing at 4-5% - region imports 50% of steel needs
• Local steel industry hampered by Chinese imports, lack of capital, lots of JV-ing
• Largely EAF environment • S. Korea domestic steel market weak, imports up • Japanese steel demand flat – little impact from earthquake
reconstruction or Olympics
Krakatau-Posco JV Photo: Platts
A few other market observations
• Lump and pellet premiums – should move structurally higher
• Non-traditional iron ore sources (250 mil mt in 2013!) could be impacted
• More trades being done on platforms - globalORE, CBMX
• What about scrap? China produces 10% of steel via EAF, but targeting 25-30% by 2025
• Could replace Fe units
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Falling raw materials prices ($/mt)
Do derivatives move physical prices?
• Sentiment indicators
• Chinese retail investors’ influence
• Shanghai rebar futures - Dalian Commodities Exchange iron ore futures
• SGX cleared 216 mil mt of iron ore futures and derivatives in Jan-May, up 111% y-o-y
• 40% of participants are Asian mills and traders – miners watching closely
• Hedging versus speculation
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Mt Volume Last Year % Change Turnover Last Year % Change End-of-Year OI End-of-Last Year OI % Change
Iron Ore 66,287,900 4,378,430 1413.97% 4,935.97 408.87 1107.24% 560,494 129,782 331.87%
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Final thoughts
• Australia dominant producer as rivals (Vale aside) offer little new tonnage
• Iron ore supply surge set to slow between 2015 and 2018 – could help support prices
• China is heading down the environmental path – and up the quality and efficiency curve - curbing steel capacity will take a while but capacity expansions slowing
• Chinese steel production is likely to plateau at 850-1.5 billion mt/year by 2025-30
• Both iron ore miners and steel mills will need to improve efficiencies to boost margins
• Derivatives to play a bigger role
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Thank you!!
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Paul Bartholomew Managing Editor, Australia, Platts Editor, Steel Raw Materials Monthly [email protected]
www.platts.com