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January 23, 2016
Global Steel Production and Capacity Utilization in December 2015
Written by Peter Wright
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Global steel production in 12 months through December totaled 1.596 billion tonnes with a capacity of 2.3 billion tonnes. Production in the month of December was 126,724,000 tonnes, down from 126,814,000 in November, however there was one more day in December and on a tons/day basis production was down by 3.3 percent at 4.088 million tonnes month/month and down from 4.518 in April which was the highest month of the year. If we look at the three month moving average and plot it over time we see that there has been a significant decline in the second half of the year since and including 2010 which usually extends into February of the next year, after which production kicks up rapidly (Figure 1).
