Blast furnace production resumptions slowed down, pig iron production continues to decline.

To better serve our customers and enhance the efficiency of the SMM database, we will optimize and adjust the existing classification of the non-ferrous database in June 2025. This adjustment will not involve any changes to the data.

According to a survey by SMM, as of May 28, the operating rate of blast furnaces at 242 steel mills surveyed by SMM was 88.35%, down 0.06 percentage points WoW.

According to the SMM survey, as of May 21, the operating rate of blast furnaces at 242 steel mills surveyed by SMM was 88.41%, down 0.23 percentage point WoW. The capacity utilisation rate of blast furnaces was 90.08%, down 0.37 percentage point WoW. The daily average pig iron production of the sampled steel mills was 2.4303 million mt, down 10,000 mt WoW.

According to data from SMM, the expected operating rate of copper pipe & tube enterprises in May 2025 is 80.07%, down 3.65 percentage points MoM and 3.25 percentage points YoY.

According to the SMM survey, as of May 7, the operating rate of blast furnaces at 242 steel mills surveyed by SMM was 88.96%, up 0.07 percentage point WoW.

According to the SMM survey, as of April 30, the operating rate of blast furnaces at 242 steel mills surveyed by SMM was 88.89%, up 0.31 percentage point WoW.

In February, the operating rate of copper pipe & tube producers was 70.28%.The operating rate of copper pipe & tube enterprises in March 2025 is expected to be 82.33%.

According to SMM survey of 50 EF steel mills that mainly produce construction steel, their operating rates was 40.94%, down 1.26 percentage points WoW, as of March 19.

Operating rate of BFs was 89.45% on March 20, up 0.3 percentage points WoW, SMM survey showed.

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