Treger faces bleak future

THE collapse of steel production in Zimbabwe is negatively impacting on business, with companies such as Treger Products, who use large quantities of the commodity, facing a difficult future.

Zimbabwe’s steel production is currently in the doldrums following the collapse of Ziscosteel in 2008 due to choking financial constraints.

Before its collapse, Zisco was the largest integrated steel works company in Africa, with a capacity to produce one million tonnes of the commodity annually.

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