About EUNIRPA

Our organisation and its purpose
The Steel sector is generally known as an industry with well organized professional associations and this is largely true for the steel producers in our business. However, during the first few months of 2016, it became very clear that there was no professional association whatsoever that specifically defended the interests of non-integrated wire rod processors. Due to various reasons, a number of European non-integrated companies felt the urgent need to unite in a professional organization and they decided to found EUNIRPA on July 11^th, 2016, in Brussels.

EUNIRPA is an association that represents 15 members covering 12 Member States and defends the interests of European non-integrated wire rod processors and other long steel products in all EU matters, including but not limited to trade, customs and anti-trust matters, affecting their business activities, whether at national level or at EU level. All EUNIRPA members are active in the steel transforming business.

Contrary to fully integrated steel manufacturers that produce their own steel and process it into semi-finished or finished products, the members of EUNIRPA do not produce their own steel out of iron ore or scrap. Instead, they buy wire rod from steel mills and transform the purchased wire rod (high and low carbon) into bright wires, galvanized wires, rebar on coil, bars, spacers, lattice girders, mesh, steel cords, steel ropes and other wires for different applications.

In total, the members of EUNIRPA are, by far, the largest importers and non-integrated industrial users of wire rod into the EU. Collectively, they represent a total market share of over 3.8 million tons in the wire rod processing industry.