Steel Products Prices North America
May 26, 2017
Global Steel Production in April and Forecast through 2018
Written by Peter Wright
Production in the month of April was 142,080,000 metric tons, down from up from 143,469,000 tons in March. Capacity utilization at 73.6 percent was up from 71.9. The three month moving averages (3MMA) that we prefer to use were 137,479,000 and 72.0 percent respectively. Capacity is 2.35 billion tonnes per year. Figure 1 shows monthly production and capacity utilization since April 2000.
