With the quick and unplanned move by many companies to a remote workforce, cybercrime risk grows considerably.

It started, as so much does these days, with a tweet. I saw this come across my feed from Zekelman Industries:

Tariff talk dominated the steel market in 2018. How will trade policy and other issues affect the market for the steel supply chain over the next 12 months?

The upcoming opportunity for calendar flipping has got us naturally looking ahead to the new year, and what we can expect for the metals supply chain. Notably, how will trade issues will again affect pricing and availability of metals. Likewise, what kind of impact tariffs will have downstream.

Fair trade is most certainly an important pursuit for the North American steel industry. But a single-minded commitment to the topic runs the risk of ignoring other challenges that threaten the steel business.

As economies mature and become less directed toward infrastructure and more toward consumers, their consumption of steel tends to decrease.