Hot-Rolled Steel Coil (HRC)

Commercial and structural HRC by gauge, width and grade

Hot-rolled coil is strip rolled above the recrystallisation temperature and wound hot, sold on gauge, width, grade and surface. Gauge runs from 1.5 mm up to 25 mm — under about 3 mm is thin-gauge HRC that competes with cold-rolled for some uses, above 12 mm shades into plate-in-coil. Width is 1,000 to 2,000 mm with 1,250 and 1,500 mm the commodity widths, and coil weight 10–30 MT depending on the mill's mandrel and your crane. Grade is the specification that carries the price: SS400 (JIS G3101), S235JR and S275JR (EN 10025), ASTM A36 and A1011 CS are the general structural and commercial grades, SAE 1006 / 1008 are the low-carbon drawing chemistries for cold rolling and tube work, and API 5L X42–X60 strip is a different market with a different price. Black (as-rolled) HRC keeps its mill scale; pickled and oiled (P&O) has had it removed in an acid line and is what a cold roller or a pipe mill with a clean-surface requirement takes. Tolerances follow EN 10051 or ASTM A568 and a buyer writes flatness and crown limits into the contract where a slitting or profiling line needs them.

The seaborne coil trade in 2025 was led by a handful of origins. The 2025 export declarations put Indonesia at 2.94 Mt (USD 524/MT declared), India at 2.26 Mt (USD 549), the USA at 1.44 Mt (USD 1,046), Kazakhstan at 1.18 Mt (USD 565), Egypt at 0.77 Mt (USD 691) and Australia at 0.37 Mt, out of 15 declaring origins. The US figure reflects the tariff-protected North American price rather than a different product; the Asian and Egyptian origins set the price for an Indian Ocean or East African buyer. HRC is sold in the same lanes as plate, and CBIL's chartering desk is already working steel stems — plates out of Dunkirk and a 30,000 cbm steel project cargo out of Penglai — so the coil freight is priced by a desk that is fixing steel this month, not by a generic index. CBIL brokers hot-rolled coil from Asian, Indian and Egyptian mills to pipe mills, cold rollers, service centres and fabricators as a commodity brokerage company, against mill test certificates to the named standard stating the melt and pour country (no slab of excluded origin in the chain) and third-party inspection of gauge, width, coil weight and surface. Kazakh coil is worked only on routings with no excluded-origin port, rail transit or transhipment. Parcels are worked in Handysize and Supramax breakbulk or on multipurpose tonnage, coils eye-to-sky or eye-to-side as your discharge gear requires, on FOB and CFR terms; the chartering desk (LaycanDesk) quotes the freight alongside the cargo. Send your gauge and width mix, grade, coil-weight limit and surface requirement.

Need the ship as well? Our chartering desk prices Turkey to Peru steel freight on LaycanDesk.

Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.