[TowerTalk] Rise in steel prices?

[on4kj]

  Same story in Belgium, and probably elswhere in the world.....
  No further comment.
  Jos
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: <UpTheTower at aol.com>
  To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
  Cc: <Nealon at tessco.com>
  Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:16 PM
  Subject: [TowerTalk] Rise in steel prices?


  >     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. >>
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