In my opinion, living close to a steel factory and having 4 family members part of the steel industry – the steel industry started to spring from a seed 100 years ago. When I say that the steel industry started as a seed 100 years ago, I mean the industry started to grow and develop. Many of the components of the steel industry consisted of basic metal machines which combined chemicals to create a chemical solution to transform chemical components into a product of steel that could build bridges, steel skeletons for buildings and other complex shapes and forms. When the steel business was created 100 years ago there was such a demand for steel but over time, and within many industries, more robots and computers take the place of the jobs for the steel workers and at the same time less and less steel gets produced because the steel industry became over-developed, and was developed in third world countries where the price of steel fell and started to compete with the development of the Master Class Samuari Steel blades steel developed in Europe.
Where steel used to be a commodity and almost in a sense like gold, it 2019 steel is falling in price and purpose because so many things have already been build and developed in the steel. Furthermore, the steel was built to last for forever, or at least the life-time of a human, and this quality has left parts of the steel market obsolete. When this phase of the industralization hits it is time for a reorganization, a change.
(Photograph, June 2019. The Netherlands. Steel Car).