Mickey_D
Stainless
- Joined
- Apr 18, 2006
- Location
- Austin, TX
I know this is the wrong forum but there are a lot more eyeballs here. I buy about 5,000 pounds of 6061 a month. At the start of the year pricing was between $2.05 and $2.15 a pound depending on shape, size, and amount ordered. My normal supplier is Trident and use Farmer's as a backup (they normally only carry Kaiser and it does not anodize as well with our guys). We have had three price increases this year and are now up to $2.65 a pound with Trident and Farmer's will be at least as high. Plus lead times have gone from a couple of days to 4 to 8 weeks on some of our common sizes (1.25" x 6" flat). WTF? Is everyone else seeing this or do they just hate me for paying my bills on time vs. all of the other deadbeats that the sales guys are always crying about?
I have heard stories from the Big Freeze and power outages trashed some extrusion presses to the mills are just trying to drive up prices because but this is getting painful. The delivery trucks seem to actually have less material on them over the last month so I am not sure if this is demand driven or someone is just being a dick in the supply chain. Is this happening in other parts of the country or is Central Texas just screwed again like my beer fridge in all of the power outages and rolling blackouts?
I have heard stories from the Big Freeze and power outages trashed some extrusion presses to the mills are just trying to drive up prices because but this is getting painful. The delivery trucks seem to actually have less material on them over the last month so I am not sure if this is demand driven or someone is just being a dick in the supply chain. Is this happening in other parts of the country or is Central Texas just screwed again like my beer fridge in all of the power outages and rolling blackouts?