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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 crude steel production rises 25% year on year – January 2010

February 22, 2010

At least that’s the headline from worldsteel which published world crude steel production data for January today. Of course that’s a rise of 25% comparing January 2010 to January 2009. The press release is here and you can mess about with all the data in the Nerds spreadsheet below.
The more interesting analysis is likely [...]

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Nerds of Steel – new & improved

February 1, 2010

Yes – finally we’re really back. We’re slightly redesigned, structurally improved and ready to bring you insight into, data from & news about the steel industry once again. It’s been a long road back. Anyone running a blog will tell you that as it grows – like any other construction – the maintenance issues increase [...]

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World crude steel output 2009 full year – down 8%

January 22, 2010

Worldsteel just published the data for crude steel production for December 2009 and in doing so the total for the year. You can see their press release here and the data for 2009 and back to 2006 by month and country in the Nerds spreadsheet below.
December crude steel production was just about flat with November [...]

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China results for December: crude production up 5% and exports up 17%

January 20, 2010

Chinese crude steel production rose 5% from 47.3 million metric tonnes in November to 49.4 million tonnes in December. This brings total 2009 crude steel production to 568 million tonnes compared to 498 million tonnes in 2008.
Finished steel exports continued to climb, rising 17% in December to 3.3 million tonnes. This can be [...]

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World crude steel production down 5% in November

January 5, 2010

Late in posting this data, so apologies. worldsteel data for November 2009 crude steel production was released just prior to the holidays on December 21st. World crude steel output in November 2009 was down about 5% month on month. But November 2009 was up about 22% over November 2008. All in all the recovery in [...]

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World crude steel production rises 3.1% in October

November 20, 2009

According to data published today by worldsteel, world crude steel production reached 112MT for the first time since August of 2008. The October figure is a 3.1% improvement on September’s output and 13% better than October production last year when the industry was beginning its sharp decline.
China’s month-to-month growth of about 2% was exceeded by [...]

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Nerds of Steel changes & innovations

November 17, 2009

Many of you will have noticed over the last couple of weeks that Nerds of Steel is changing. I wanted to explain what has been going on and to ask you for feedback on the changes that have already taken place and those you would like to see in future.
The most signficant change is in [...]

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No link between the new economy and steel industry publisher

October 30, 2009

They still don’t get it. American Metal Market has a story today called “Building of new economy discussed by steel, union leaders”. I was mildly interested in the story for its own sake, but it’s much more important as an example of the contortions a steel industry publisher will go through to avoid being even [...]

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