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First River Steel Data Room Dataset of the Week: US construction spending 2010-2020, US$M

February 25, 2021

According to Worldsteel, construction accounts for about 50% of steel demand worldwide. While this figure differs by region, those of us who follow steel demand are keenly interested in the performance of the construction sector. Construction is the focus of this week’s Steel Data Room dataset of the week, “US Census Bureau Construction Spending”. In […]

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First River Steel Data Room dataset of the week: World Steel Association Steel Statistical Yearbook

September 29, 2020

Wouldn’t it be great to expertly chart publicly available data from the World Steel Association? In this week’s Steel Data Room dataset of the week, you steelnerds can find all the publicly available data from Worldsteel’s latest Steel Statistical Yearbook, as well historical data from past yearbooks back to 1980. And if you’re looking for […]

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World apparent steel use revised downward in April 2012 Short Range Outlook

May 8, 2012

worldsteel‘s forecast for growth in world apparent steel use in 2012 was revised downward from 5.4% in October 2011’s Short Range Outlook to 3.6% in April 2012’s Short Range Outlook published recently. Driving the change in the forecast is worldsteel’s estimate that China’s steel use will grow by 4.0% in 2012 instead of by 6%. […]

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World crude steel production published for November 2011

December 23, 2011

worldsteel published November 2011’s world crude steel production last Monday. Average daily production dropped 3% but monthly production declined by 6% (due to the short November month) to 115.5 million metric tonnes. The 4.8 million-tonne fall in production in China (about 9%) drove the overall decline, but production also declined by over 200,000 tonnes in […]

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US flat products imports drop 5% in May

June 11, 2011

Based on reported import licenses, US flat products imports declined 5% from 690,000 short tons in April to 656,000 tons in May. In comparison, May 2010 flat products imports were 639,000 tons and May 2009 imports were 350,000 tons. The drop was driven by lower hot dip galvanized and cold rolled imports. Hot dip imports […]

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World crude steel production for April 2011

May 24, 2011

worldsteelpublished April 2011’s crude steel production last Friday. Monthly world crude steel production declined 2.2% between March and April but daily crude production increased 1.1% due to the short April month. Countries with significant production declines included Austria and Slovakia which both dropped by over 10%, as well as Japan which fell by 8%. Poland […]

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