Small time plumbing was the first task you tackled when staying at home became the new normal.
Day one of being home is almost in the books and you were anxious to share with your friends and family your one fine accomplishment. For the first time ever you installed a brand new toilet seat. You were going to call a plumber, but you knew it would be very expensive and after buying up all the Garden Herb Triscuits and other favorite snacks you found yourself a little short on cash. Also, if you asked a friend you would have needed to clean the bathroom first so you decided to try it yourself. After carefully examining it, you figured it out and now your good friend from days gone by is surely smiling down on you. You have never done any of these things because that friend was always there to help, so now you have yet one more thing to add to a rapidly expanding resume. In fact, at the end of this first day accomplishment, you found yourself admitting that you just could not wait for what the next day would bring!
Your friend was a master of all crafts, and he always wanted to educate you while he was helping you. Now that he is gone, of course, you wish that you would have capitalized on all of the knowledge that he had from working 40 years in the thin sheet metal industry. He knew products and people, copper and brass tacks. In fact, you liked to joke that you could answer all academic questions having to do with philosophy and literature and that he could solve any major and minor household construction project. After years of first selling and then designing with thin sheet metal he had a network of resources that literally seemed to have the answer to any question that you had.
Thin Steel Sheets are Used in a Variety of Projects
As both novice home owners and industrial wizards face the new normal that seems to continue to shift every day, it should come as no surprise that the use of thin steel sheets and other kinds of combined metals will be more commonly used. In an effort to create spaces that are easier to keep clean and to sanitize, in fact, it is important to note that the versatile use of products like thin steel sheets in work and cooking spaces can be one step toward getting the world back to a place of being more productive.
The steel industry, of course, has long understood the advantage of brass and copper, stainless steel, and other man made products, but it is important to note that finding a way to use all kinds of traditional materials to create safer and cleaner working and consumer spaces is going to be increasingly important.
According to recent statistics, sheet metal currently accounts for nearly $30 billion in U.S. revenue, but as the repercussions of the pandemic continue to work its way through our world, it is going to be the innovators who determine the role that thin steel sheets and other versatile materials will play in the future.
Fortunately, as much as 69% of all steel, which represents more than 80 million tons, is recycled in North America each year. This means that the steel that was used to build our nation during the Great Depression can remain a viable product today. Recycled and reused in the latest kinds of products that are needed, it is important to note that engineers will be working with scientists to help determine the next steps to getting the economy and the health of the nation back where it needs to be.
What may start out looking as simple as one neighbor helping another to find solutions to small household repair projects needs to be the mentality that construction workers and scientists alike take in their efforts to help move into the future. Determining what role you will play in finding a solution can help you significantly impact not only your neighbor, but the nation. Are you ready to do your part to create solutions to a problem that is larger than most of us have ever faced?