SHANGHAI, May 22 (SMM) - According to SMM statistics, the average operating rate of blast furnaces was 92.57% last week, an increase of 0.3 percentage point from a week ago. The average capacity utilisation rate stood at 94.05%, up 0.32 percentage point. The daily average pig iron production of sample steel mills was 2.25 million mt, an increase of 7,700 mt. Last week, north, east and south China each saw one blast furnace resume production.



