Conditions of participation:

Under the aspect of data protection and confidentiality, we expressly point out that you are obliged to treat all data made available to you within the scope of the project „Benchmarking Steel Prices“ by AMMPL as confidential. Please make certain that the data are neither disclosed nor distributed to third parties.

The names of participating companies are not disclosed in order to maintain the highest possible levels of confidentiality.

Data entry masks are made available to participants for the purpose of data entry.

Participation requires membership of the company in the AMMPL and the payment of participation fees.

Benchmarking is offered for three types of steel products:

• Carbon steel: cold/hot rolled strip, broad strip, plate
• Stainless steel: cold/hot rolled strip, broad strip, plate
• Carbon steel long products: concrete steel, slabs, pipes, billets

The participation fee for each type of steel is € 1,280.00 +VAT. The participant chooses the types of steel from the above selection, for which he would like to implement benchmarking, in the registration form. He may add further types of steel for benchmarking at any time by completing and submitting a new, additional registration form.

Upon receipt of the enclosed, completed registration form at AMMPL the participant’s registration is confirmed and he is obliged to pay the amount invoiced by AMMPL upon receipt of the invoice. After payment of the participation fee, the participant is entitled to have his data evaluated one time for the selected types of steel.

The results of the evaluation are made available in encrypted form. Every participant receives an overview of the articles for which he has specified prices. The overview contains the following evaluations:

• Indication of the lowest price at 100%
• Indication of own price as percentage deviation from 100% 
• Average price of all participants 
• Positioning versus comparable participants (ranking)

We would like to expressly point out that we cannot accept any guarantee for the availability of comparison figures for each of your specified articles in the respective type of steel. In this case, a reduction of the participation fee is not possible.

Please understand that we cannot accept any liability within the scope of this project.

The conditions of participation in the respective current version form the binding basis or participation in this project.

Please forward the enclosed, completed registration form by fax (+49 69 30838-199) or by mail to AMMPL (BME e.V.), Bolongarostr. 82, 65929 Frankfurt, Germany.