The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted varied sectors’ outputs and deliveries; artificial demand, supply chain, and manpower restrictions are looming over the steel industry in the region, UAE’s key players tell Construction Week.

The global crisis has sent certain countries into lockdown, caused border closures as well as travel and entry restrictions and the UAE’s steel industry has had to bear the brunt and taken a hit as well.

The chief executive officer of Dana Steel, Dr Ankur Dana tells Construction Week that while not very significant, there has been a dr