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First River Steel Data Room Dataset of the Week: US Steelmaking Capacity Utilization

April 2, 2021

If you are following the US steel industry, you’ll be interested in this week’s featured dataset, “AISI Capacity Utilization”. This dataset has figures published weekly by the American Iron and Steel Association including raw steelmaking capacity utilization and production. In the graph below showing capacity utilization since 2008, you can see the effects of the […]

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Global crude steel production up again in January

February 28, 2011

worldsteel’s latest estimates of world crude steel production were published the other day. I should add a word of more than general caution about this data however. worldsteel itself posts these comments: The January 2011 crude steel production figures for many countries were not available at the time of this release, thus exceptionally, this month’s […]

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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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Global steel production dips slightly in June

July 29, 2010

Sorry for the delay in posting this release from worldsteel which appeared on July 20th. Global liquid steel production dipped a little over 4% in June compared to the prior month but only a little over 1% on a daily output basis. No region bucked the trend. There seems to be a considerable amount of […]

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Crude steel production up 29%

June 21, 2010

Global crude steel production kept close to its record-setting pace in April. According to worldsteel’s most recent production report released today, crude steel production was a little over 124MT in May, up 29% from the same month in 2009. Capacity utilization sagged a little to 82% globally. All the data are below:  

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US steel mill utilization once again at 70%

March 15, 2010

For the first time since the week ending October 25th 2008, US steel mill utilization is above 70% according to data for the week ending March 13th, 2010 released today by the AISI. The progress of weekly utilization since August of 2008 is shown in the chart below:   There are two charts on the […]

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