Every big buyer we speak with in 2015 is talking about traceability by heat and lot, digital transfer of test certificates, and eventually machine-readable spec data.
We are not writing white papers about Industry 4.0 — we are quietly upgrading our own systems so a customer can pull an EN 10204 3.1 PDF within an hour of the coil clearing our warehouse.
The lira weakens; exports become more competitive. We expand annealed-wire capacity to serve German and Italian customers.