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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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World crude steel production down in February

April 7, 2011

worldsteel published the February 2011 crude steel production data a couple of weeks ago. World production was down 8% over January but up 8% compared to February 2010. About half of the February decline was due to lower Chinese production. As usual, all the data for February 2011 (and for a number of prior years) [...]

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2010 World Crude Steel production tops 1.4 billion tonnes

January 25, 2011

worldsteel published December 2010′s crude steel production data last Friday. As expected, the global steel industry achieved record crude steel production of 1,414 million tonnes beating the previous record set in 2007 by 68MT or 5% – about equivalent to Russia’s entire annual output. And as Peter Marsh points out in an article in the [...]

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World steel production steady through November – record beckons

December 20, 2010

worldsteel’s latest release detailing world crude steel production in November shows a modest (

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World crude steel production up again in October

November 19, 2010

worldsteel published the world’s crude steel production data for October today. So here are the data below and here’s a link to the press release. Production was up a little under 5% for the month over September in total and a little under 2% on a daily production rate. Everywhere seemed to show some improvement. [...]

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New world steel demand forecast for 2011

October 6, 2010

We haven’t had time to study the data yet, but worldsteel published an updated Short Term Apparent Steel Use forecast a couple of days ago. At first glance it looks like demand this year is going to be higher than initially forecast in April 2010, while 2011 is set to grow at the same rate [...]

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World steel capacity utilization falls to 73%

September 21, 2010

Worldsteel published the global steel production figures for August today. They confirm the gentle slowing of steel production with output declining marginally by 1% July to August. If production stays flat for the remainder of the year, it could still be a record production year. The thing to watch however, (and only if you’re careful [...]

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World crude steel production down over 3% in July

August 25, 2010

World crude steel production was down a little over 3% in July after similar falls in May and June. I’m afraid we’re only likely to know what this means as the full context of 2010 develops unless someone wants to share what they think it all means now. I’m withholding judgment. It was a general [...]

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