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Of course, a single steel mill is unable to supply the entire planet. So there are steel mills on every continent, in nearly every country.
The type of ore and the needed impurities to create the nearly 3,500 different grades of steel, which includes various types of steel alloys. When the impurities are difficult, slow, expensive to obtain it interrupts all the other sectors and industries dependent on steel.
There are 400 different types of alloys based on copper. While both industries involve metallurgy and materials science, the specific knowledge and skills required for producing steel alloys and copper alloys are quite different.
Transporting the alloys, then further processing them is a whole new industry. The nearly 4000 different alloys all exist because they are in demand. Without corporations that can pool the necessary resources to produce the 4000 different alloys there is no more Technological Human Civilization.
The type of ore and the needed impurities to create the nearly 3,500 different grades of steel, which includes various types of steel alloys. When the impurities are difficult, slow, expensive to obtain it interrupts all the other sectors and industries dependent on steel.
There are 400 different types of alloys based on copper. While both industries involve metallurgy and materials science, the specific knowledge and skills required for producing steel alloys and copper alloys are quite different.
Transporting the alloys, then further processing them is a whole new industry. The nearly 4000 different alloys all exist because they are in demand. Without corporations that can pool the necessary resources to produce the 4000 different alloys there is no more Technological Human Civilization.