This
Week’s Raw Steel Production
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In the week ending April 3, 2010, domestic raw
steel production was 1,712,000 net tons while the capability utilization
rate was 70.8 percent. Production was 981,000 tons in the week
ending April 3, 2009, while the capability utilization then
was 41.0 percent. The current week production represents
a 74.5 percent increase from the same period in the
previous year. Production for the week ending April 3, 2010
is down 1.3 percent from the previous week ending March
27, 2010 when production was 1,734,000 tons and the rate of capability
utilization was 71.7 percent.
Adjusted year-to-date production through April 3, 2010 was
21,833,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 68.0 percent.
That is a 61.4 percent increase from the 13,529,000 tons during the same
period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 42.4
percent.
Broken down by districts, here’s production for the week
ending April 3, 2010 in thousands of net tons: Northeast Coast:
146; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 111; Lake Erie: 47; Detroit: 120;
Indiana/Chicago: 467; Midwest: 235; Southern: 510 and Western:
76.
(Estimate based on reports from companies
representing about 50% of the Industry’s Raw Steel Capability + includes
revisions for previous months)
