Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel (Baogang) has announced that in the January-September period this year it produced 8.8729 million mt of
pig iron , 8.6889 million of
crude steel and 8.1957 million mt of finished steel, indicating respective increases of 14.43 percent, 9.2 percent and 10.27 percent year on year.