Author: Paul Ploumis
01 Jun 2015 Last updated at 02:21:37 GMT
SEATTLE (Scrap Monster) : The World Steel Association(Worldsteel) has announced the list of top ten steel producing companies of the world in 2014.
According to the 2015 edition of the World Steel in Figures published yesterday, Arcelor Mittal continues to be in the top spot this year as well.
The list of top ten steel companies of 2014 is as follows:-
|
Rank |
Company Name |
Tonnage (Mt) |
|
1 |
Arcelor Mittal |
98.09 |
|
2 |
Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation |
49.30 |
|
3 |
Hebei Group |
47.09 |
|
4 |
Baosteel Group |
43.35 |
|
5 |
POSCO |
41.43 |
|
6 |
Shagang Group |
35.33 |
|
7 |
Ansteel Group |
34.35 |
|
8 |
Wuhan Steel Group |
33.05 |
|
9 |
JFE |
31.41 |
|
10 |
Shougang Group |
30.78 |
Given below is a table showing the comparison between the 2013 and 2014 output by the major steel producing countries of the world.
|
2014 |
2013 |
|||
|
Rank |
Output(Mt) |
Rank |
Output(Mt) |
|
|
China |
1 |
822.7 |
1 |
822.0 |
|
Japan |
2 |
110.7 |
2 |
110.6 |
|
United States |
3 |
88.2 |
3 |
86.9 |
|
India |
4 |
86.5 |
4 |
81.3 |
|
South Korea |
5 |
71.5 |
6 |
66.1 |
|
Russia |
6 |
71.5 |
5 |
69.0 |
|
Germany |
7 |
42.9 |
7 |
42.6 |
|
Turkey |
8 |
34.0 |
8 |
34.7 |
|
Brazil |
9 |
33.9 |
9 |
34.2 |
|
Ukraine |
10 |
27.2 |
10 |
32.8 |