COVID-19 Impact on Flat Steel in Chemical and Materials Industry
INTRODUCTION
Flat steel products are the type of the steel which are in the form of sheets and plates. Flat steel products incorporate rolled or slabs that are a semi-finished steel commodity. In industries such as automotive, household furniture, shipbuilding and construction, flat steel products have a wide variety of applications and uses.
Flat steel products are of different types which are hot rolled sheets, cold rolled sheets, coated sheets and plates. Availability of different types of flat steel products increases their uses in the building and construction of the commercial building and residential.
The demand of the hot rolled sheets are more in the automobiles, construction, agricultural equipment, and machinery as the steel have the more strength which can help to increase the life span of the building and the equipment in different industries.
Cold rolled sheets are more used in the domestic appliances products which are manufactured in different industries under several processes. Cold rolled sheets are can be molded and pressed in any form according to the requirement of the products. Coated sheets are the type of the flat sheets which are coated with different material which as aluminum or zinc which enhances the anticorrosion properties of steel product.
Flat steel plates are being manufactured in different length and breadth according to the specific product such as in manufacturing of the industrial machine. Flat steel products can be cut in any shapes and manufactured in any dimension due to which application of the flat steel sheets products increases in automotive and construction industry.
IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON FLAT STEEL MARKET
The pandemic have hit the economy very hard word wide as the lockdown was imposed in all the regions which have made the situation challenging for all sector for growth and also the developing actives will be done in the stager manner. COVID-19 have also effected the import and export of the flat steel products across all the regions due to which the demand of the flat steel have decline. The demand of the flat steel have decline by 15%-17% in the COVID-19 period.
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