In the week ending September 4, 2010, domestic raw steel production was 1,708,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 70.6 percent. Production was 1,441,000 tons in the week ending September 4, 2009, while the capability utilization then was 60.2 percent. The current week production represents a 18.5 percent increase from the same period in the previous year. Production for the week ending September 4, 2010 is up 0.6 percent from the previous week ending August 28, 2010 when production was 1,698,000 tons and the rate of capability utilization was 70.2 percent.
Adjusted year-to-date production through September 4, 2010 was 60,309,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 70.7 percent. That is a 53.6 percent increase from the 39,271,000 tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 48.0 percent.
Broken down by districts, here's production for the week ending September 4, 2010 in thousands of net tons: Northeast Coast: 78; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 128; Lake Erie: 43; Detroit: 129; Indiana/Chicago: 444; Midwest: 247 Southern: 559 and Western: 80.
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