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Week’s Raw Steel Production

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In the week ending April 10, 2010, domestic raw

steel production was 1,731,000 net tons while the capability utilization

rate was 71.6 percent. Produc…

This
Week’s Raw Steel Production

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In the week ending March 20, 2010, domestic raw
steel production was 1,720,000 net tons while the capability utilization
rate was 71.1 percent. Production was 983,000 tons in the week
ending March 20, 2009, while the capability utilization then
was 41.1 percent. The current week production represents
a 75.0 percent increase from the same period in the
previous year. Production for the week ending March 20, 2010
is up 0.3 percent from the previous week ending March 13,
2010 when production was 1,715,000 tons and the rate of capability
utilization was 70.9 percent.

Adjusted year-to-date production through March 20, 2010 was
18,387,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 67.4 percent.
That is a 59.0 percent increase from the 11,565,000 tons during the
same period last year, when the capability utilization rate
was 42.9 percent.

Broken down by districts, here’s production for the week
ending March 20, 2010 in thousands of net tons: Northeast Coast:
144; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 116; Lake Erie: 46; Detroit: 111;
Indiana/Chicago: 466; Midwest: 236; Southern: 543 and Western:
58.

(Estimate based on reports from companies
representing about 50% of the Industry’s Raw Steel Capability + includes
revisions for previous months)