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US Raw Steel production climbs 7.1% y/y to 1,606,000 net tons

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United States domestic raw steel production climbed 7.1 percent year-on-year to 1,606,000 net tons in the week ended on November 19.

UNITED STATES November 23 2016 10:09 AM
NEW YORK (Scrap Register): United States domestic raw steel production climbed 7.1 percent year-on-year to 1,606,000 net tons in the week ended on November 19, 2016, while the capability utilization rate was 67.7 percent, as per the latest figures from the the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI). 

US domestic raw steel production was 1,500,000 net tons in the week ended November 19, 2015 while the capability utilization then was 62.7 percent.

Production for the week ended November 19, 2016 is up 1.6 percent from the previous week ended November 12, 2016 when production was 1,580,000 net tons and the rate of capability utilization was 66.6 percent.

Adjusted year-to-date production through November 19, 2016 was 78,313,000 net tons, at a capability utilization rate of 71.1 percent. That is down 1.5 percent from the 79,488,000 net tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 70.9 percent.

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