In the week ending July 9, 2011, domestic raw steel production was 1,848,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 75.6 percent. Production was 1,684,000 tons in the week ending July 9, 2010, while the capability utilization then was 69.6 percent. The current week production represents a 9.7 percent increase from the same period in the previous year. Production for the week ending July 9, 2011 is down 0.3 percent from the previous week ending July 2, 2011 when production was 1,853,000 tons and the rate of capability utilization was 75.8 percent.
Adjusted year-to-date production through July 9, 2011 was 49,281,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 74.2 percent. That is a 4.7 percent increase from the 47,082,000 tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 71.5 percent.
Broken down by districts, here's production for the week ending July , 2011 in thousands of net tons: Northeast Coast: 102 Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 154; Lake Erie: 39; Detroit: 107; Indiana/Chicago: 469; Midwest: 272; Southern: 620 and Western: 85. |