Friday, September 5, 2008

Charges of X steel- Go by Tonnage or Go by Pieces of Drawings?

What is the reasonable rates for producing one tonne of structural steel shopdrawings? It is very much dependent on the individual firm. However wages for respective country will be taken into account in charging the production of shopdrawing. For example, country like Australia will charge a rate between AUD250 per tonnage to AUD500 per tonnage.

Country such as China will charge half of the Australian's rates. Some companies do charge according to the pieces of structural steel drawings to be produced. So, which one is reasonable charges? Go by tonnage or go by pieces of drawings?

Substantial increase in steel rates worldwide

In view of the substantial increase for steel rates worldwide, the demand of steel drop dramatically as a lot of project came to a halt.

While waiting for the oil price to be stablised, a lot of client had opted to shift the investment to




country like middle east where economy conditions are very much better in any other country. Having said that, the demand of X-steel Shopdrawing is still increasing over years despite economy slump.

X-steel Latest version

The Latest version of X steel offers more functions in detailing for example sizes of connection element such as bolts and nuts will be shown on the drawings.