Steel Mills
November 5, 2014
The Evolution of US Steel Production
Written by Peter Wright
The World Steel Association published its 2014 statistical year book this week with data through 2013. Figure 1 shows total crude steel production in the U.S. since 1880 in short tons. The peak production was 150,483,000 tons in 1973. The final total for 2013 was 95,566,000 tons, down by 2.05 percent from 97,565,000 in 2012. In 2013, 98.8 percent of total steel produced in the US was continuously cast up from zero in 1970. Continuous casting has been the first of three revolutions in steel in the last four decades.
