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Jessica Wagner

My 15 years of steel industry experience includes consulting based in Pittsburgh, working for the former Mannesmann Demag Hüttentechnik in Duisburg, Germany, consulting based in London and now in the Milan area. I concentrate on steel and raw materials research and analysis outside the US.

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China crude steel production up 19% on March 2020, up 12% on Q1 2020

April 26, 2021

Worldsteel reported crude steel production in China at 94 million metric tonnes in March, 19% higher than in March 2020. Chinese crude steel output in the first quarter of 2021 was 12% higher than in the same period last year. Data from China’s General Administration of Customs show net finished steel exports in March at […]

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World crude steel production rises 15% on March 2020

April 23, 2021

Worldsteel published March 2021 crude steel production yesterday. World steel output was 169.2 million metric tonnes, 15% higher than in March 2020. China produced 94 million tonnes in March, accounting for 56% of world output and rising 19% on March 2020. In other parts of Asia, Indian output rose 24%, while Japanese and South Korean […]

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First River Steel Data Room Dataset of the Week: Stainless Meltshop Production

April 19, 2021

Did you know that stainless steel meltshop production worldwide in 2020 was 50.9 million metric tonnes, a 2.5% drop from 2019 levels? Did you know that world stainless meltshop production grew annually by 5% on average between 2001 and 2020?  You can find all this data in this week’s featured dataset, Stainless Meltshop Production. Stainless […]

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US long products imports rise 29% on March 2020

April 16, 2021

Based on reported import licenses, US long products imports rose 29% from 219,000 short tons in March 2020 to 282,000 tons last month. Licenses indicate that the increase was mainly due to higher rebar imports which rose significantly from Algeria, Portugal, and Turkey. US long products imports in the the first 3 months of 2021 […]

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Worldsteel steel demand forecast +5.8% in 2021, up 1.7% on October 2020 prediction

April 16, 2021

In its latest Short Range Outlook (SRO), published yesterday, Worldsteel expects steel demand in 2021 to reach 1,874 million metric tonnes. The new forecast increases estimated demand growth between 2020 and 2021 from +4.1% in its October 2020 SRO to +5.8% in the newly released figures. China accounted for 56% of world steel demand in […]

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First River Steel Data Room Dataset of the Week: Nucor historical steel shipments

April 9, 2021

If you are looking to chart publicly available steel shipments data for major US steelmakers, you’ll be interested in this week’s Steel Data Room featured dataset “Nucor Annual Steel & Steel Product Shipments”. This dataset has all Nucor’s annual steel shipments data by steel product and downstream product. However, while Nucor has data easily available […]

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