In the week ending March 12, 2011, domestic raw steel production was 1,847,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 75.5 percent. Production was 1,770,000 tons in the week ending March 12, 2010, while the capability utilization then was 73.2 percent. The current week production represents a 4.4 percent increase from the same period in the previous year. Production for the week ending March 12, 2011 is up 1.1 percent from the previous week ending March 5, 2011 when production was 1,827,000 tons and the rate of capability utilization was 74.7 percent.
Adjusted year-to-date production through March 12, 2011 was 18,179,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 73.3 percent. That is a 9.2 percent increase from the 16,648,000 tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 69.4 percent.
Broken down by districts, here's production for the week ending March 12, 2011 in thousands of net tons: Northeast Coast: 88; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 142; Lake Erie: 41; Detroit: 120; Indiana/Chicago: 472; Midwest: 277; Southern: 619 and Western: 88. |
