China’s crude steel production for the period was 68.9Mt, up by 1% compared to August 2013. Japan produced 9.3Mt of crude steel in August 2014, an increase of 2.2% compared to the previous year. India produced 7Mt, an increase of 5.2% and South Korea’s figure of 5.3Mt was up by 8% on last year’s figure.
In the EU, Germany produced 3.1Mt of crude steel in August 2014, down by 1% compared to August 2013. Spain produced 1.1Mt, down 0.4% compared to the previous year and France’s crude steel production was 1.1Mt, down 9.1% on August 2013. Italy produced 1Mt of crude steel, down by 0.8% on last year.
In Turkey, crude steel production for August 2014 was up by 13.9% to 2.9Mt while in Russia 6.2 Mt of crude steel was produced, up by 5.8% over August 2013. Ukraine produced 1.8Mt, a decrease of 37% compared to the same month last year.
The USA produced 7.7Mt of crude steel in August 2014, an increase of 2.9% compared to August 2013.
Brazil’s crude steel production for August 2014 was 2.9Mt, down by 1.4% on August 2013.
The crude steel capacity utilisation ratio for the 65 countries in August 2014 was 74.2%. It is 1.4 percentage points lower than August 2013. Compared to July 2014, it is 1.2 percentage points lower.
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