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World crude steel production rises 15% on March 2020

April 23, 2021

Worldsteel published March 2021 crude steel production yesterday. World steel output was 169.2 million metric tonnes, 15% higher than in March 2020. China produced 94 million tonnes in March, accounting for 56% of world output and rising 19% on March 2020. In other parts of Asia, Indian output rose 24%, while Japanese and South Korean […]

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World crude steel production up 4.1% on February 2020 to 150.2Mt

March 24, 2021

Worldsteel published February 2021 world crude steel production yesterday. World steel output was 150.2 million metric tonnes, 4.1% higher than in February 2021. China produced 83 million tonnes in February, accounting for 55% of world output and rising 10.9% on February 2020. In other parts of Asia, Indian production fell 3.1%, Japanese production dropped 5.6%, […]

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World crude steel production up 4.8% on January 2020 to 162.9Mt

February 26, 2021

Worldsteel published January 2021 world crude steel production yesterday. World steel output was 162.9 million metric tonnes, 4.8% higher than in January 2020. China produced 90.2 million tonnes in January, accounting for 55% of world output and rising 6.8% on January 2020. In other parts of Asia, Indian output rose 7.6% on last January and […]

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First River Steel Data Room Dataset of the Week: OECD Steelmaking Capacity, Million metric tonnes

February 8, 2021

A great source of the latest global steelmaking capacity figures from the OECD is the Steel Data Room dataset “OECD Global Crude Steel Capacity by Country”. This dataset has OECD figures on capacity by world, region, and country, automatically updated with the newest published figures which are revised every six months. In the Steel Data […]

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August world crude steel production 156Mt, +0.6% on August 2019

September 24, 2020

Worldsteel published August world crude steel production today. World steel output was 156.2 million metric tonnes, 0.6% higher than in August 2019. Crude steel production in the first eight months of 2020 was 4.1% lower than in the same period last year. China accounted for 61% of world output in August. Chinese production was 94.8 […]

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US long products imports drop 35% on August 2019

September 21, 2020

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports fell 35% from 268,000 short tons in August 2019 to 174,000 tons in August this year. The decline was mainly due to lower wire rod imports from Japan, India and South Korea, as well as lower parallel flange sections imports from South Korea. Based on January […]

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