BANGLADESH’S INCREASES PUSH FOR BILLET-MAKING CAPACITY
December 8th, 2013
Leading Bangladesh steelmaker KSRM has joined rivals BRSM and Abul Khair in building new billet plants, lured by cheaper production at home and prospects of overseas sales.All three companies now say they hope to start operations of new mills in the coming year (2014), with their combined annual output of billet reaching 3 million tonnes, double the size of the country’s estimated billet imports of 1.5 million tonnes per year, industry insiders have told Steel First.Analysts from Bangladesh’s Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL) and Asian Tiger ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.