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World crude steel production rises 6.8% in 2011

January 24, 2012

worldsteel published December 2011 and full-year 2011 world crude steel production on Monday. Looking at the monthly results, December production increased 1.5% over November to 117 million metric tonnes, though daily production declined 1.8%. China, the US, Russia and Turkey each showed significantly higher production while France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan all showed declines. […]

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World crude steel production published for October 2011

November 25, 2011

worldsteel published October 2011’s world crude steel production last Monday. Monthly production increased by 0.9% but average daily production declined by 2.4% due to the longer month. October production increased significantly in South Korea (608k tonnes), Japan (591KT), Russia (499KT), and India (200KT), but the rise in these and a few other countries was counteracted […]

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World crude steel production published for September 2011

October 21, 2011

worldsteel published September 2011’s world crude steel production today. Average daily production increased by 2.8% though monthly production was down 0.5% due to the short month. Countries where production declined the most in September included China with a 2.05 million metric tonne drop, the Ukraine (down 0.3 million tonnes), and the US (down 0.25 million […]

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World crude steel production published for August 2011

September 21, 2011

worldsteel published August 2011’s world crude steel production on Tuesday. Monthly production and average daily production both declined by 2.3% between July and August. Countries where production fell most included Italy, down 1,215K metric tonnes, China, down 550K tonnes, and France, down 440K tonnes. However, production increased in Spain, Russia, and the United States each […]

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Q1 global crude steel production up 9% on 2010

April 27, 2011

worldsteel published March 2011’s crude steel production data last Wednesday. First quarter crude production increased 9% between 2010 and 2011 and the production fall in February 2011 was reversed to rise 9.5% reaching crude production of 129 million tonnes in March. While China’s production climbed back to close to January levels in March, a number […]

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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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