[TowerTalk] Rise in steel prices?

[UpTheTower at aol.com]

    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 at 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. >>