In the week ending September 18, 2010, domestic raw steel production was 1,714,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 70.9 percent. Production was 1,486,000 tons in the week ending September 18, 2009, while the capability utilization then was 62.1 percent. The current week production represents a 15.4 percent increase from the same period in the previous year. Production for the week ending September 18, 2010 is down 1.8 percent from the previous week ending September 11, 2010 when production was 1,744,000 tons and the rate of capability utilization was 72.1 percent.

Adjusted year-to-date production through September 18, 2010 was 63,767,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 70.7 percent. That is a 51.0 percent increase from the 42,242,000 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 18, 2010 in thousands of net tons: Northeast Coast : 79; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 123; Lake Erie: 45; Detroit : 131; Indiana/Chicago: 456; Midwest : 249 Southern: 566 and Western: 65.