January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
230 pages
6h 1m
English
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After the China Steel Supercycle
The story of the steel industry is characterized by constant change and transformation. It continues to be so. The later part of the 2012 edition of this book described a number of risk factors emerging in the industry with prospects of an uncertain future. Three years on, those factors have produced a full-blown restructuring crisis in global steel. The original edition can help readers understand the historical background, technical and economic factors driving these challenging developments. The origin of the current problems, in the author’s view, is well documented. However, the speed and dimensions of change always surprise us.
At the broadest level, the imbalance between global steel demand and ...