Steel demand set to drop as China-driven growth stalls

摘要

Global steel demand will fall in 2015 on the heels of slowing growth in China, the World Steel Association (WorldSteel) said, with North America not immune to the global malaise."It is clear that the steel industry has, for the time being, reached the end of a major growth cycle," according to Hans Jürgen Kerkhoff, chairman of WorldSteel's Economics Committee.