Meet Our People | Chandra Shekhar Chaudhary, Group Director — Indicaa Group | Full Interview

India is the world's fastest growing steel market. And it cannot generate enough scrap to keep up. In this episode of Meet Our People, we sit down with Mr. Chandra Shekhar Chaudhary, Group Director of India Marketing and Procurement for Oceania, East and Southeast Asia at Indicaa Group — one of the most uniquely positioned people in global metal trade today. With demand and supply sitting on the same desk, Mr. Chaudhary has a view of the global scrap market that most buyers and sellers never get to see simultaneously. In this conversation he breaks down what that dual perspective reveals, why India's scrap deficit will only deepen over the next decade, why Southeast Asia is being underestimated, and why supply chain security has become the defining challenge of global trade. In this conversation, Mr. Chaudhary talks about: → Why having marketing and procurement under one roof gives Indicaa a strategic edge others miss → India's growing scrap deficit and what it means for global trade flows over the next decade → How geopolitics has shifted from a periodic disruption to a permanent market variable → Why Southeast Asian markets including Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines are being underestimated right now → How export restrictions, decarbonisation policy and carbon reduction targets are reshaping scrap movement globally → The role of green steel and why scrap is the only viable feedstock for a low carbon steel future → Why supply chain security has become the new mantra for every manufacturing hub in the world Some lines from this conversation that will stay with you: "The demand for scrap is around 40 to 45 million tonnes. The generation is 30 to 35 million tonnes. That shortage will only widen as India pushes towards 300 million tonnes of steel capacity." "Geopolitics has moved from being a periodic disruption to a permanent market variable. Any policy announcement in any country will instantly affect both sides of the market." "These Southeast Asian countries are underestimated at the moment. But in the near future the scrap will move from this region. They are very promising." "Supply chain security is the new mantra for any manufacturing hub. If you are going for green steel and carbon reduction, you have to use scrap. There is no alternative." Indicaa Group FZE is the world's leading transnational in recyclables, headquartered at Jebel Ali, Dubai. Founded in 1993, Indicaa operates across 64 countries, 263 ports and ICDs, and 6 continents, commanding one tenth of the world's containerised scrap metal trade. 🌐 www.indicaa.com 📧 indicaa@indicaa.com #IndicaaGroup #MeetOurPeople #ChandraShekharChaudhary #ScrapMetal #GlobalTrade #IndiaSteel #GreenSteel #CircularEconomy #InPursuitOfExcellence #Dubai #Oceania #SoutheastAsia #SupplyChain #Recyclables #ContainerisedScrap