Steel Prices Continue to Soar - March Commercial Director’s Briefing Without a doubt, the continued surging price of steel has been the topic dominating discussions across the industry this month.  With prices for finished products breaking through the £1000 per tonne barrier, in both hot-dip galvanised and cold reduced – and certain grades of hot rolled not far behind, it’s not hard to understand why. Read More

With the news dominated by coronavirus and the roll-out of vaccination programmes at home and abroad, people would be forgiven for thinking that things were quiet from a steel industry and manufacturing perspective. The reality could not be further from the truth.   In this February briefing I discuss the Brexit Transition, soaring steel prices and the potential impact of the Lunar New Year holiday in the Far Read More

Our Commercial Director, Simon Edwards, reflects on 2020 and shares his thoughts on what 2021 has in store for us from a steel industry point of view. The photographs above certainly tell a tale.  The majority of them were taken in January, before the world had fully awoken to the threat posed by Covid-19.  Two of them were captured in the spring, as restrictions started to transform the way businesses had to Read More