World crude steel production for the 62 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 130Mt in July 2012, an increase of 2.0% compared to July 2011.
China’s crude steel production for July 2012 was 61.7Mt, an increase of 4.2% compared to July 2011.
Elsewhere in Asia, Japan produced 9.3Mt of crude steel in July 2012, up by 1.2% compared to the same month last year. South Korea’s crude steel production for July 2012 was 5.9Mt, an increase of 4.4% compared to July 2011.
In the EU, Germany produced 3.6Mt of crude steel in July 2012, a decrease of -2.1% on July 2011. Spain’s crude steel production for July 2012 was 1.0Mt, 7.0% higher than July 2011. In July 2012, the UK produced 0.9Mt of crude steel, up by 6.6% compared to July 2011.
Turkey’s crude steel production for July 2012 was 3.1Mt, an increase of 9.7% compared to July 2011.
Russia produced 5.9Mt of crude steel, an increase of 3.6% compared to July last year.
The US produced 7.4Mt of crude steel in July 2012, up by 0.9% on July 2011.
Brazil’s crude steel production for was 3.0Mt, down -4.1% from July 2011.
Crude steel capacity utilisation ratio for the 62 declined to 78.7% from 80.4% in June 2012. Compared to July 2011, it is 0.8 percentage points lower.
For country by country statistics visit www.worldsteel.org/statistics/crude-steel-production.html