Competition in the steel sector could soon be red hot

It will annually process 150,000 tones of metal sheets for the automotive and white-goods sectors from steel imported from Linz. Voest Alpine also declared it would further boost production capacity of the plant to 500,000 tones, which could seriously threaten the position of Ispat Polska Stal - the company declared it would become a market leader in this sector. "We will not comment on the decision of the Voest Alpine," said Jacek Mireński from IPS. The center could also become a threat to other domestic steel distributors unless some products of Voest Alpine would be directed to the Czech and Slovak markets. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 8) M.M.