2025 Price Adjustment
20th of August 2025
Dear Valued Customer
This past year has certainly been a very challenging year for businesses in South Africa. Roemers Grinding Works has through these times been working very hard to improve our service to our customers by adopting various LEAN manufacturing principles throughout the business. We have also celebrated our 125th Birthday with many of you. We are glad to be seeing many successful implementations of refined processes and look forward to pleasing our customers more in the future in providing unique cutting solutions.
Over the last year local steel prices have been fluctuating due to more reliance on imports, issues around our ports and heavier fees and tariffs making importing of raw materials difficult. The disruption at AMSA has seriously threatened price stability as well, especially in long steel products. It is however the imported alloy steel prices for D2, HSS, O2 and Stainless steels that have really rocked the boat, with an average increase of between 4% and 16% due to things like increased transportation costs and increase alloy and scrap surcharges in addition to the added energy tariff due to the war in Europe. Also import costs have increased due to the changing laws around import and protection tariffs and storage. Energy (+6,5%) and labour costs (+5,4%) have also increased.
However, some prudent savings and effective stock management and a lot of recycling have managed to alleviate some of these pressures. As it has been incredibly difficult to control the cost increases we are thus forced to increase our prices by 7%, effective 15th of September 2025. However, savings can be achieved on specific manufacturing quotes where alternate methods or steels can be used or larger quantities can be produced at the same time, where these savings will be indicated to you on the quotations. In addition, selected services have actually achieved some savings and where they apply, these will be communicated to you through the following weeks.
To limit the impact Roemers Grinding Works will honour all confirmed quotations received prior to the increase for 45 days after the increase date.
If you have any queries, please contact your Customer Service Consultant.
Warm regards
ROEMER’S GRINDING WORKS
