Steel Products Prices North America

July 18, 2019
May Raw Steel Production Strong at 8.3 Million Tons
Written by Brett Linton
Total U.S. raw steel production in the month of May rose 2.7 percent to 8,325,489 net tons, reports the American Iron and Steel Institute in Washington. May production was at one of the higher levels in recent history, only surpassed by March 2019 and October 2018. Prior to those three months, the last time production topped that was in August 2014 at 8,546,303 tons.
Broken down by production method, 5,643,477 tons (67.8 percent) were produced by electric arc furnaces (EAFs) and 2,682,012 tons (32.2 percent) were produced by blast furnaces.


