Essential for SA to retain primary steel industry
If lost, it would be expensive and difficult to replace
As former editor of Business Day and the Financial Mail, Peter Bruce should know that it is advisable to talk to a wide range of firms in the steel and steel products industry before writing about a contentious issue, rather than quoting the views of one industrialist, whose views are not representative of the views of business across the industry, upstream and downstream.
I have spent the past year talking to many business leaders and others in the steel and steel products industry as facilitator of the Steel Industry Master Plan for trade, industry & competition minister Ebrahim Patel. By far the majority, both of the upstream industry (who make the primary steel products — plates, coils, bars and so on) and the downstream industry (who process steel and make things from it) believe it is essential for SA to retain a primary steel industry that makes steel from iron ore...
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