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by jseutter 1280 days ago
Yeah, I'm not sure about that unavailable at almost any price part. If you could put in an order for a million tons of steel you would get on the steel manufacturers order list, which is what I was thinking about when I mentioned almost any price. But it sounds like they have been working through their existing material for decades and are only now running out. The material may have last been produced a long time ago so the quantities they need are very small. That 50 tons of scrap may last them for another decade or two.