STEEL INDUSTRY: Conducting your business with the DUTIES-SWORD hanging over your head (yet another testimony)

STEEL INDUSTRY
Conducting your business
WITH THE DUTIES-SWORD HANGING OVER YOUR HEAD

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Below is another testimony from one of our members

Dear Gerhard

The decline in quality of standard mild steel over the last 15+ years is shocking.

Not to mention the struggle to get the material you need.

In years gone by, one had three or more suppliers that one called to get the best price. Today, one needs eight suppliers just to find one who has stock of absolutely standard items. Some mild steel supplies is so bad that it destroys tooling because it is so hard. It makes a drill blunt 4 mm into the plate. 8mm plate steel that cracks when bent in a press brake etc.

Not to mention that there is no such thing as a standard price list valid for 6 months or a year as in the past. Every day each item needs to be quoted because the prices fluctuate so much.

Mittal with the help of Government is killing the steel manufacturing sector at a rapid rate and the perpetrators live in luxury and operate with impunity.

Regards

We are all in this together.
Privileged and challenged to be South African.