Steel bar shortage to hit construction industry hard


  • Business
  • Thursday, 05 Feb 2004

Lim Ann Kok

THE construction and building industry, one of the key engines of growth of the economy, could be severely affected by a shortage of steel bars as the price of the raw material for its production – scrap steel – hits a record high of over US$300 per tonne. 

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