Small and Mid-size Processors Driven to Narrower Corner/Giving up the existing businesses or changing the business lines in efforts to seek other ways for survival

摘要

There are voices that small and mid-size processors of steel products have driven to a narrower corner this year, as the government has made some changes in its material purchase system like the abolition of the collective private contracts and revision to the systems of the bids for small and mid-size enterprises and the multilateral supply contracts. According to an official at a small-size maker of metal furniture, small and mid-size enterprises are situated in the environment where only those firms that have some competitiveness in lowering their costs for the purchase of raw materials and production can get orders in bids, even though they say that the governmentallows self-controlled competition among small and mid-size enterprises. He said that it is feared that most of small-size makers of metal furniture will actually give up their businesses or change themselves into distributors, leading to the distortion of the related market.