State interventions to help salvage the steel industry have so far failed to improve its long-term viability and a new strategy is being prepared, which should be ready in the first half of 2025, trade, industry & competition minister Parks Tau has indicated. 

The industry has suffered a number of plant closures and thousands of job losses over the past five years. ..

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