Metalsconsultinginternational

MCI - Metals Consulting International (metalsconsultinginternational.com / steelonthenet.com) — Industrial capital-investment cost database sold on a per-record basis. As at September 2025 the database holds over 1,300 records of capital investments made globally in recent years, itemised by plant and equipment type — sinter plant, coke batteries, direct-reduced-iron or hot-briquetted-iron units, blast furnaces, basic oxygen and electric-arc furnaces, induction furnaces, continuous casters, hot and cold rolled coil lines, hot-dip galvanising, tinplate, coated sheet, heavy sections, rail, bar,…

Metalsconsultinginternational offers (Alternative, Fundamental, Supply Chain) — Stated on the source: over 1,300 capital-investment records globally as at September 2025, plus one cost model per process route, a freight-estimate catalogue priced per commodity movement, and price series across the ferrous complex carrying historical data with monthly forecasts to two years and annual forecasts to 2040.

Capital-project cost benchmarking and feasibility appraisal for industrial investors and operators; verification of announced project budgets against comparable actual investment records; bottom-up plant cost modelling by process route; commodity logistics cost modelling on point-to-point freight; medium-term commodity price forecasting for procurement and hedging; and — the specific relevance here — the on-site power plant, substation-adjacent and utility-auxiliary entries within the capex register, which make this one of the few places where industrial self-generation and grid-connection capital costs are itemised per project. Direct transformer or switchgear equipment pricing is not among the enumerated categories, so fit to the equipment-procurement question is partial and comes through the industrial-power and project-cost layer rather than through equipment line items.

The data is with 15 years of history.