Company: ZEUS
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-004742
Chunk: 108

Company: OLYMPIC STEEL INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 108
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 supply disruptions and inflationary pressures, including the availability and rising costs of labor and energy; 

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      risks associated with shortages of skilled labor, increased labor costs and our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; 

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     risks of volatile metals prices and inventory devaluation;

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      rising interest rates and their impacts on our variable interest rate debt; 

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     supplier consolidation or addition of new capacity;

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     the levels of imported steel in the United States, imposed tariffs and duties on imported and exported steel or other products, U.S. trade policy and its impact on the U.S. manufacturing industry;

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      risks associated with economic sanctions, and current global conflicts, or additional war, military conflict, or hostilities could adversely affect global metals supply and pricing; 

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     general and global business, economic, financial and political conditions, including, but not limited to, recessionary conditions and legislation passed under the current administration;

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     reduced production schedules, layoffs or work stoppages by our own, our suppliers’ or customers’ personnel;

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      our ability to successfully integrate recent acquisitions, including CTB, Metal-Fab and Metal Works, into our business and risks inherent with the acquisitions in the achievement of expected results, including whether the acquisition will be accretive and within the expected timeframe; 

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      the adequacy of our existing information technology and business system software, including duplication and security processes; 

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     the inflation or deflation existing within the metals industry, as well as product mix and inventory levels on hand, which can impact our cost of materials sold as a result of the fluctuations in the last-in, first-out, or LIFO, inventory valuation;

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     competitive factors such as the availability, and global pricing of metals and production levels, industry shipping and inventory levels and rapid fluctuations in customer demand and metals pricing;

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     risks associated with the infectious disease outbreaks, including, but not limited to customer closures, reduced sales and profit levels, slower payment of accounts receivable and potential increases in uncollectible accounts receivable, falling metals prices that could lead to lower of cost or net realizable value inventory adjustments and the impairment of intangible and long-lived assets, negative impacts on our liquidity position, inability to access our traditional financing sources and increased costs associated with and less ability to access funds under our asset-based credit facility, or ABL Credit Facility, and the capital