New Market Report Now Available: France Metals Report Q1 2013
BMI's France Metals Report for Q1 2013 examines the long-term challenges facing steelmaking and aluminium smelting in the country and warns that the sectors are at risk of permanent capacity closure. We look at how the country's leading metals producers, ArcelorMittal and Rio Tinto Alcan, are facing up to an increasingly hostile and competitive operating environment and whether France will be able to return to pre-2008 rates of production. We also examine whether the structural shift towards delocalisation that has...
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