GOOD luck to SSI on Redcar in Teesside (Echo, Apr 15).

Steel has always been, and always will be, a cyclical business. However, conditions have been exceptionally difficult for SSI over the past three years here on Teesside.

We’re grateful that the company has hung on in there against a background of low steel prices.

The tide will turn, as it always has, and SSI's perseverance will be rewarded with substantial profits in the near future.

Cllr George R Dunning, Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council.