In the week ending May 28, 2011, domestic raw steel production was 1,801,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 73.7 percent. Production was 1,808,000 tons in the week ending May 28, 2010, while the capability utilization then was 74.8 percent. The current week production represents a 0.4 percent decrease from the same period in the previous year. Production for the week ending May 28, 2011 is down 1.1 percent from the previous week ending May 21, 2011 when production was 1,821,000 tons and the rate of capability utilization was 74.5 percent.
Adjusted year-to-date production through May 28, 2011 was 38,180,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 73.9 percent. That is a 5.0 percent increase from the 36,352,000 tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 71.4 percent.
Broken down by districts, here's production for the week ending May 28, 2011 in thousands of net tons: Northeast Coast: 80; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 153; Lake Erie: 42; Detroit: 118; Indiana/Chicago: 480; Midwest: 273; Southern: 571 and Western: 84. |
