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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.
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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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World crude steel output in September continues to recover

October 26, 2009

The world’s production of crude steel continued to recover in September 2009 according to the latest output data from worldsteel. It was a modest improvement from August to be sure of a little more than 250KT, but it continued a recovery that has lasted all year.
The world’s record monthly crude steel output was in [...]

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China results for September: crude production down 3% and exports up 19%

October 25, 2009

Chinese crude steel production fell 3% from 52.3 million metric tonnes in August to 50.7 million tonnes in September. This is 28% higher than September 2008 crude production.
Finished steel exports continued to climb, rising by 19% to 2.47 million tonnes. In comparison, September 2008 finished steel exports were 6.7 million tonnes. Net [...]

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China results for August: crude production up 3% and exports up 15%

October 1, 2009

Chinese crude steel production rose 3% from 50.7 million metric tonnes in July to 52.3 million tonnes in August. This is 23% higher than August 2008 production.
Finished steel exports continued the climb started in June by increasing 15% in August to 2.08 million tonnes. In comparison, last year’s August exports were [...]

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