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James Moss

After 20-some years consulting I'm still fascinated by the problems of strategy development in this basic industry, especially now that it stands at the center of an industrial revolution like no other. You can read more about me here.

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World steel production steady through November – record beckons

December 20, 2010

worldsteel’s latest release detailing world crude steel production in November shows a modest (

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Papers from 69th OECD Steel Committee Meeting in Paris

December 8, 2010

The OECD Steel Committee held its 69th session last week. They’re bona fide steel nerds from government, industry associations and steel companies. They say that members and observers account for around 60% of world steel production and 76% of world exports of steel – but this looks like old data. Their declared purpose is to […]

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World crude steel production up again in October

November 19, 2010

worldsteel published the world’s crude steel production data for October today. So here are the data below and here’s a link to the press release. Production was up a little under 5% for the month over September in total and a little under 2% on a daily production rate. Everywhere seemed to show some improvement. […]

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World steel production shrugs off China slowdown

October 21, 2010

Worldsteel published the September 2010 crude steel production data today. The data show that the monthly total global production of steel for September was about 112M metric tonnes. That’s a slight monthly decline (-1.5%) from August but a slight rise (1.8%) in the daily production rate. China’s production dropped about 7%, but the Rest of […]

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New world steel demand forecast for 2011

October 6, 2010

We haven’t had time to study the data yet, but worldsteel published an updated Short Term Apparent Steel Use forecast a couple of days ago. At first glance it looks like demand this year is going to be higher than initially forecast in April 2010, while 2011 is set to grow at the same rate […]

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World steel capacity utilization falls to 73%

September 21, 2010

Worldsteel published the global steel production figures for August today. They confirm the gentle slowing of steel production with output declining marginally by 1% July to August. If production stays flat for the remainder of the year, it could still be a record production year. The thing to watch however, (and only if you’re careful […]

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