170 Pages
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Routledge
170 Pages
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by
Routledge
170 Pages
21 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Steel is the foundational material of modern civilization and constitutes the core of industry, and yet, it is overproduced across the world. This supply glut is reducing margins and turning steel into a sunset industry. Steel consumes as much as four times the amount of raw materials as its produced volume, and the sheer bulk of the steel makes it costly to transport. Because of this, countries... Read more
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
- Issues Facing The Steel Industry
- Parameters of Steel Policy in India
- Excess Capacity and Production of Steel in the World
- Over Capacity in the Indian Steel Industry
- Producers and Product Mix
- Who To Promote, The Integrated Mills Or Electric Furnaces?
- The Failure of Demand of Steel in India
- The Myth of the S Curve
- The Metallics Balance of Steel
- Bad Loans of The Steel Industry: What Do The NPAs Really Tell?
- Technologies For Making Steel
- The Cost of Steel
- The Price of Steel
- Profits From Steel
- The Steel Trade of India
Conclusion: Summary of Arguments
Index
Biography
Susmita Dasgupta is a policy economist and a sociologist of popular culture. She has worked with the Joint Plant Committee, Ministry of Steel for the past thirty years and is among the busiest speakers at steel conferences in India.
