The customer needs a usable component For a builder or machinery producer, a tonne of steel is useful only when its grade, dimensions and delivery fit the job. That creates a commercial opening between primary steel production and final fabrication. Service centres can combine stockholding, cutting, preparation and documentation into a more dependable purchase. In BRICS markets, the opportunity should be tested at the level of a local industrial cluster, where delivery reliability and small-batch requirements can be observed directly. Worldsteel's October 2025 outlook described divergent regional demand conditions, including stronger expected growth in India than in China. Those were forecasts at publication, not guaranteed outcomes. Worldsteel outlook. The implication for a service…