Here's some scuttlebutt from the Tower-Pro reflector. I'm sure that
this'll affect tower prices at some point.
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
TOWER TECH
>> From: "Dan Simmonds" <dan@anwireless.com>
>> Raw steel prices in the US are climbing just as fast, if not faster, than
fuel prices.
This time last year we were paying roughly $22.20 cwt (per hundred weight)
for steel. Today we are paying upwards of $44.00 cwt for the same material
used in our manufacturing.
Reason for this is, is that a huge amount of the US generated scrap steel is
now China-bound, which leaves domestic steel mills will less and less scrap
to process back into recycled steel. >>
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