In the week ending April 2, 2011, domestic raw steel production was 1,811,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 74.1 percent. Production was 1,776,000 tons in the week ending Apri 2, 2010, while the capability utilization then was 73.2 percent. The current week production represents a 2.0 percent increase from the same period in the previous year. Production for the week ending April 2, 2011 is down 1.7 percent from the previous week ending March 26, 2011 when production was 1,843,000 tons and the rate of capability utilization was 75.4 percent.
Adjusted year-to-date production through April 2, 2011 was 23,640,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 73.6 percent. That is a 7.6 percent increase from the 21,964,000 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 April 2, 2011 in thousands of net tons: Northeast Coast: 86; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 145; Lake Erie: 43; Detroit: 117; Indiana/Chicago: 465; Midwest: 275; Southern: 591 and Western: 89. |
