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World crude steel production rises 4% in July

August 26, 2009

Sorry for the delay in posting worldsteel figures for crude steel production by country in July, but here they are. Overall steel production was up 4% in July, led by a record-breaking performance in China. Global production is down year to date by about 20% versus last year, but down only 11% July 2009 compared […]

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US steel industry capacity utilization over 50%

July 14, 2009

Lots of people are watching the AISI’s weekly utilization data very closely, including us. I referred in a recent post how anemic the improvements in capacity utilization have been and the improvement is indeed slow. But we passed a kind of milestone last week. According to the AISI, the US steel industry got above 50% […]

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World Crude Steel Output for February 2009

March 21, 2009

Worldsteel has published crude steel production estimates for 66 countries around the world that report production. The data is shown in the spreadsheet below. There is a minor decline in output from January, but given the likely revisions to the data – up and down – caution should be taken in assuming a continuing downward […]

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China results for Dec: crude production and exports up 7%

February 17, 2009

Crude steel production in China reversed its decline and climbed 7% to reach 37.8 million metric tonnes in December.  December finished steel exports also grew by the same percentage to 3.2 million tonnes.  Crude steel production was 9% below its level in December 2007 and exports were 34% lower. Full-year 2008 crude production rose by […]

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2008 World Steel Production by Country by Month

January 23, 2009

The World Steel Association just published crude steel production numbers by country for December 2008 so we have provisional 2008 full year data. There are are plenty of articles about the changes in 2008 – like this one from SBB. But if you’re a real nerd, you’ll want the data in a form you can […]

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World monthly steel production declines 10% in November

December 18, 2008

New figures from the World Steel Association show a further 10% drop in global crude steel output in November compared to October. Overall the first 11 months of 2008 are slightly above output in 2007, but if output is flat in December (which seems likely at best) then we 2008 is heading towards being about […]

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