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Government offers six months top-up insurance
The Chancellor Alistair Darling announced in last month’s Budget some strictly limited support in relation to credit insurance. Marion Rich, BCSA Director of …
Outlook stabilises and safety improves
New order enquiry levels have been good since the start of the year and many steelwork contractors have reasonable order books despite the gloomy overall …
October 2008 – Reasons to be cheerful?
Financial markets have been going through unprecedented turmoil in recent months, and all industries have been dreading the possible impact on their own …
January 2008 – Steel winning new friends worldwide
Newspaper headlines worldwide were being dominated at the end of 2007 with alarming phrases like ‘credit crunch’ and ‘credit meltdown’, giving rise to …
Creating shed-loads of value
There is no other industry sector of such importance to the national economy that happily bears as unassuming a name as sheds. Nick Barrett reports on new …
Market focus on Supersheds
Clear signs that the growing importance of sheds to the rapidly changing UK economy is gaining wider recognition comes from the two-day Sheds conference and …
June 2009 – Education ambition demands benefits of steel
The search for those elusive green shoots of recovery sometimes seems to be taking on near manic proportions, with City commentators falling over themselves to …