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Steel News March 24, 2022 07:55:13 PM

World Crude Steel Output Posted Substantial Dip Until February

Paul Ploumis
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The CIS region recorded nominal decline by 1.7% in output to 16.80 Mt.
World Crude Steel Output Posted Substantial Dip Until February

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): The world crude steel production by the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) totalled 299.4 million tonnes (Mt) during the initial two-month period of the current year. This is substantially down by 5.5% when compared with the production during the period from January to February in 2021.

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The largest regional producer of steel during the period was Asia and Oceania region, which recorded a cumulative output of approximately 215.8 Mt. The region accounted for over 72% of the total global production. The regional output dropped by 7.2% over the previous year. The second largest producer was the block of EU-27 countries, whose output recorded notable year-on-year decline by 2.2% to 23.8 Mt. In third place was North America with a production of 18.5 Mt. The year-to-date production posted marginal increase by 0.4% over Jan-Feb‘21.

The CIS region recorded nominal decline by 1.7% in output to 16.80 Mt. The South American output, at 6.9 Mt, was down substantially by 5.9%, when matched with the previous year. The Middle East output has edged higher significantly by 9.4% to 7.40 Mt. Meanwhile, the African countries witnessed 5.9% surge in output to 2.5 Mt during January to February this year.

It must be noted that the 64 countries included in the list, had accounted for 98% of world’s total crude steel production in 2020.

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