State urged to regulate steel importation

Scrap Metal Dealers Association national chairman, Evans Ng'ang'a says the metal recycle industry has enough capacity to sustain all steel millers with scrap metal. [File, Standard]

Scrap metal dealers have appealed to the government to urgently protect the industry, which is threatened by importation of low priced materials into the country.

Scrap Metal Dealers Association national chairman, Evans Ng'ang'a has written to Trade and Industrialisation Cabinet Secretary Lee Kinyanjui, to intervene and address the recent importation of steel reinforcement and steel billet into the country.