BIR: Under-threat European stainless steel industry "no longer cost-competitive"
Early 2023 had brought an improvement in market conditions for Europe's stainless steel sector following the low demand suffered in 2022, reported BIR Stainless Steel & Special Alloys Committee Chairman Joost van Kleef of Oryx Stainless in his opening comments to the body's latest meeting in Amsterdam on May 22.