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World crude steel production rises 7.4% in May

June 19, 2009

Worldsteel published its world crude steel production report today showing a 21% year on year decline in production through May, but a 7.4% bounce sequentially from April. Of particular note is the vigor of Chinese production which at 46.4MT is just a shade lower than the record production of 46.9MT in June last year. Follow […]

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World crude steel output up 5% in January

February 23, 2009

Worldsteel just published the preliminary world crude steel production figures for January 2009. They show a small 5% increase in output from December data entirely attributable to China – a trend that seems to have been shortlived according to this article in the FT on February 20. For non FT-subscribers the article says: Chinese steel […]

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“The sky is falling, should we run for it?”

January 23, 2009

On January 21, I appeared on a steel outlook panel at the inaugural AMM State of Steel conference in NY.  My presentation, “The sky is falling, should we run for it,” appears below.  The main point I made was that while 2009 will be a very difficult year, we should not be surprised that steel […]

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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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Latest world monthly steel production by country, October 2008

November 21, 2008

According to newly released data by the World Steel Association, global crude steel production slowed by about 7% from September to October. Steel output is higher in 2008 than in 2007 by about 2.9%. But the more interesting analysis is to explore how the data reflects the global industrial slowdown in different parts of the […]

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2008 World Steel Production by Country by Month

October 30, 2008

As we get set to start measuring the change in global steel production in the fourth quarter, we’ve loaded a useful file to the Freeloads page. It contains all World Steel Association (IISI) crude steel production data back to 1998. It’s annual 1997-2007 and monthly for 2008 through September. The latest data release was October 22nd. You’ll […]

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