Originally Posted By: Hankster
We don't have a major steel industry because of the pollutants that arise from making steel from ore. We have mini-mills that produce most of the steel from scrap and that's not going to cut it for major projects like bridges.



I dought the china stuff is any better, my BiL deals with chinese steel all the time , and finds all sorts of crap in the steel, other steel chunks, ball bearings, ect.