Unesid: the Spanish steel industry is in a difficult situation

The Spanish metallurgical association Unesid warned at the 55th annual meeting about decrease in indicators of work of the steelmaking companies to Spain. The reason of it representatives of Unised call too high cost of productions became, connected in many respects with a sharp rise in prices for energy carriers in 2021-2022. Then gas prices and the electric power jumped up approximately for 50% of all in a year. Prime cost of the Spanish steel, according to Unesid, and earlier for 30-50% exceeded that in other countries. The rise in prices for the electric power only increased this gap. Besides, a share Spain in...