Become a customer

US crude steel production rises 2.6%

US crude steel output totaled 1,792,000 net tons last week, up 2.6% from 1,746,000 tons the previous week, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute based in Washington.

November 20, 2012
By Generic people page

Paragraph entered by Atlantic migration, in order for SteelFirst articles to display correctly on Metal Bulletin.

Mills operated at an average capability utilisation rate of 72.5%.

In the corresponding week last year, mills produced 1,809,000 tons at an average capability utilisation rate of 73%.

Mills have produced 86,349,000 tons so far this year at an average capability utilisation rate of 76%, up 3.3% from the same period last year, when mills produced 83,628,000 tons at an average capability utilisation rate of 74.4%.