Understanding your context and challenges to build the relationship

  • Restructuring markets,
  • Production from increasingly integrated sites
  • Concentration of producers
  • Cyclical market
  • Considerable exposure to environmental compliance and safety issues, with increasingly pressing regulatory constraints.
  • Expansion of zones of consumption across the world
  • Seeking lowest production costs
  • Demand for return on capital
  • Reducing external costs: iron ore procurement, energy supplies, scrap metal, freightage
  • Reducing internal costs: utilities, waste, by-products, labor