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Building materials and Steel

Building materials depends on steel.

Building materials (industry) and Steel (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Steel → Building materials

2 of the enterprise types in Building materials depend on steel; for the most dependent, it rates 4 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 2 enterprise types depend on it
  • 4 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Kiln, mill and process-equipment suppliers: kiln shells and mill bodies (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Ready-mix concrete and precast producers: rebar and strand in precast (criticality 2 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.