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World’s largest steel producers 2009

July 16, 2010

Worldsteel published two potentially useful items recently. First, they published World Steel in Figures 2010 – which actually just covers up to 2009. They also published their list of the largest steel producers in 2009. They publish the list in html and pdf formats. Here’s the link to the announcement. Unfortunately, the PDF file at […]

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Crude steel production up 29%

June 21, 2010

Global crude steel production kept close to its record-setting pace in April. According to worldsteel’s most recent production report released today, crude steel production was a little over 124MT in May, up 29% from the same month in 2009. Capacity utilization sagged a little to 82% globally. All the data are below:  

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Forecast 2010 record steel consumption leaves developed world behind

April 21, 2010

Along with its global monthly steel production figures, worldsteel also published yesterday its collective wisdom about forecast Apparent Steel Use (ASU) by country through 2011. This is the ‘Short Range Outlook.’ The current forecast (data in the Nerds spreadsheet below) shows about an 11% rise in demand in 2010 to 1.24Bn metric tonnes with a […]

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World crude steel production rises 25% year on year – January 2010

February 22, 2010

At least that’s the headline from worldsteel which published world crude steel production data for January today. Of course that’s a rise of 25% comparing January 2010 to January 2009. The press release is here and you can mess about with all the data in the Nerds spreadsheet below. The more interesting analysis is likely […]

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World crude steel production rises 3.1% in October

November 20, 2009

According to data published today by worldsteel, world crude steel production reached 112MT for the first time since August of 2008. The October figure is a 3.1% improvement on September’s output and 13% better than October production last year when the industry was beginning its sharp decline. China’s month-to-month growth of about 2% was exceeded […]

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World crude steel output in September continues to recover

October 26, 2009

The world’s production of crude steel continued to recover in September 2009 according to the latest output data from worldsteel. It was a modest improvement from August to be sure of a little more than 250KT, but it continued a recovery that has lasted all year. The world’s record monthly crude steel output was in […]

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