A recent study by Oxford Economics confirms what we all intuitively understand: steel is one of the backbone industries on which economies are built and jobs created.
Our product is used to make the objects that make a modern society work — without steel, manufacturing would simply be impossible. That means steel has an unusually long and influential value chain, creating value and jobs across its own supply chain and then into the whole economy...
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