World crude steel production for the 66 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 132.9Mt in September 2016, up 2.0% up on September last year.
In the first nine months of 2016, Asia produced 825.9 Mt of crude steel, an increase of 0.6% over the first three quarters of 2015. Over the same period, the EU produced 121.3 Mt of crude steel, down by 4.8%.
North America’s crude steel production for the period was 83.9 Mt, down 1.4% while the CIS produced 76.4 Mt down 0.1%.
In China, crude steel production for September 2016 was 68.2 Mt, an increase of 3.9% compared to September 2015. Elsewhere in Asia, Japan produced 8.4 Mt, a decrease of 1.5% and South Korea’s crude steel production was 5.7 Mt, up by 1.1% when compared with September 2015.
Germany produced 3.2 Mt of crude steel in September 2016, down 3.9%; Italy produced 2.0 Mt, down 5.3% and France produced 1.3 Mt, up by 2.2% year-on-year.
Turkey’s crude steel production for September 2016 was 2.7 Mt, up 8.1% on September 2015.
Russia produced 5.7 Mt of crude steel in September 2016, down 2.1% on September 2015. Ukraine produced 1.9 Mt, down 8.0%.
The United States produced 6.3 Mt of crude steel in September 2016, a decrease of -3.8% when compared with September 2015.
Brazil’s crude steel production for September 2016 was 2.6 Mt, up by 3.1%.
The crude steel capacity utilisation ratio for the 66 countries in September 2016 was 70%. It was 69.5% in September 2015. The September 2016 capacity utilisation ratio is 1.5 percentage points higher than the August 2016 ratio.
