Construction hit with fresh big steel price hikes

British Steel has hit the construction industry with the second big price hike in three weeks blaming extreme energy prices.
The producer raised structural section prices on 15 August by £100 a tonne, which had been largely anticipated by constructional steelwork contractors.
It came after a period of relative price stability through the summer following March’s record £250 a tonne rise, which pushed sections towards £1,000 a tonne.Now the Chinese-owned producer has impos