Infrastructure

Steel price hikes hit builders

Brent Melville
Wed, 07 Apr 2021

Rebar: Kiwis at the mercy of global demand for recycled steel.

Brent Melville
Wed, 07 Apr 2021

Builders are bracing for further pain at building supplies stores, with more increases in steel prices expected in the wake of spiralling global commodity costs and a spike in building demand.Major building supply distributors said they will be passing on upcoming price hikes following 15% increases last month, which serves as a double whammy to some builders also hit by bottlenecks in the supply of structural timber. That's after the country’s largest timber producer Carter Holt Harvey (CHH) announced it was cutting supply to it...

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