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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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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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Papers from 69th OECD Steel Committee Meeting in Paris

December 8, 2010

The OECD Steel Committee held its 69th session last week. They’re bona fide steel nerds from government, industry associations and steel companies. They say that members and observers account for around 60% of world steel production and 76% of world exports of steel – but this looks like old data. Their declared purpose is to […]

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