It’s a vital industry, invented in the UK, but its recent story is characterised by highly unpredictable commodity prices and sharp changes in consumer demand. Weak economic growth worldwide following the financial crisis resulted in a surplus of steel and
It’s finally happened. British Steel is now under Chinese ownership, with the sale to Jingye Group finalised on 9th March. This arrangement, which included the company’s Dutch assets, has apparently saved more than 3,000 jobs in Scunthorpe and Teesside and
A country’s steel industry is often considered to be an indicator of its economic well-being. It plays a major role in both infrastructure and economic development. A higher production rate of steel signifies higher demand, which reveals that a country
Alexander Steel offers very competitive prices and a rapid delivery of our steel stock, any processed material, steelwork fittings, fasteners and many more products, all direct from our steel stockholder Liverpool site. We are also one of the major steel
