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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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World crude steel production published for July

August 24, 2011

worldsteel published July 2011′s world crude steel production on Monday. Monthly production declined by 0.7% between June and July and daily production declined by 3.9%. Countries which contributed to the monthly decline included China, down 632,000 tonnes over June, Spain, down 523,000 tonnes, and Germany, down 214,000 tonnes. In contrast, production grew significantly in Japan, [...]

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World crude steel production published for May

June 29, 2011

worldsteel published May 2011′s world crude steel production last Monday. Monthly production increased 2.9% between April and May, though daily average crude production was down 0.4% on April. Countries contributing to the monthly increase included China, which increased 1,213,000 tonnes over April, Japan, which increased 614,000 tonnes, Germany, which increased 303,000 tonnes, and finally Brazil, [...]

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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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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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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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