The Steel and Engineering Federation of SA has called for targeted collaboration with stakeholders to save the existing capacity of steel producers in SA and attract investment, ahead of the Mainstreaming the Steel Master Plan Conference to be held in Kempton Park.
Seifsa believes the plan requires input from all steel players including the government and labour. It also believes the long-term growth drivers of the sector lie with the country’s infrastructure projects, with the development of industry value chains, and with the greening of the industry to make it resilient in the climate-change debate.
Trentini was backed by group COO Tafadzwa Chibanguza, who warned that “without greater focus and prioritisation, the SMP will remain captive to high levels of ambition with limited real-world effectiveness”. “Hard work has gone into the Steel Master Plan with its complexities to find a balance that is in the interest of everybody including the workers, small and large business,” said Marius Croucamp, deputy general secretary of trade union Solidarity.
The National Employers’ Association of SA is among local players who chose not to sign up to the plan. It insists that localisation would force steel users to buy expensive products, which it claims local steel tends to be. This would erode competitive behaviour and kill exports.
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