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World crude steel production 132 million tonnes in July

August 22, 2013

Worldsteel published July’s global crude steel production on August 20th. World crude steel production was 132.3 million metric tonnes, 2.9% higher than in July 2012 and 1.0% higher than in June 2013. Chinese production increased by 3.8 million tonnes (+6%) between July 2012 and July 2013 to reach 65.5 million tonnes but the month on […]

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World crude steel production 136.3 million tonnes in May

June 24, 2013

Worldsteel published May’s global crude steel production on June 20th. World crude steel production was 136.3 million tonnes, 3.6% higher than in May 2012 and 0.2% lower on an average daily basis than April 2013. China production increased by 5.8 million tonnes between May 2012 and May 2013 to reach a monthly record of 67.0 […]

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World crude steel production 134.9 million tonnes in March

April 26, 2013

Worldsteel published March’s global crude steel production on April 22nd. World crude steel production was 134.9 million metric tonnes, 1.7% higher than in March 2012 and the highest monthly output ever reported. (N.B. On a daily basis output was 4.35MT slightly off the February 2013 record of 4.4MT). Compared to March 2012, Chinese production increased […]

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Forecast steel use revised downward in April 2013 Short Range Outlook

April 19, 2013

After a downward revision in October 2012, worldsteel made a further revision downward for world apparent steel use in 2013. The revision this time was from 3.2% growth in October’s Short Range Outlook to 2.9% growth in the latest April 2013 version published last week. World apparent steel use is, however, expected to grow the […]

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World crude steel production 123.3 million tonnes in February

March 22, 2013

Worldsteel published February’s global crude steel production on March 20th. World crude steel production was 123.3 million metric tonnes in February, 1.8% higher than in February 2012. Compared to February 2012, Chinese production increased by 11% and Indian production by 3%. However, other Asian countries showed significantly lower production year-on-year with Japan down 3%, South […]

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World Crude Steel Production 125 million tonnes in January

March 1, 2013

Worldsteel published January’s global crude steel production on February 20th. World crude steel production was 124.8 million tonnes in January, 0.8% higher than in January 2012. Asian production showed a strong increase between January 2012 and January 2013; China’s production increased by 4.6%, India’s by 3.8% and Japan’s by 2.7%. In contrast, the European Union […]

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