SteelOrbis Shanghai
In 2007, China's steel production volume remained on a strong uptrend, seeing a considerable year-on-year growth in all major production groups. The country's crude steel output increased to 48.924 million mt - up 15.7 percent, while its finished steel production rose to 56.460 million mt - up 15.2 percent, compared to 2006.
Meanwhile, also in 2007, the country's pig iron output soared to 46.944 million mt - up 15.2 percent, its coke output rose to 32.894 million mt - up 16.3 percent, ferroalloy production climbed to 17.467 million mt - up 22.2 percent, while wire rod output reached 8.038 million mt - up 13.8 percent year on year.
The breakdown in tonnage according to the various production groups is as follows:
Product | Total volume in 2007 (million mt) | Total volume in 2006 (million mt) | Total Y-O-Y increase (%) |
Crude steel | 48.92408 | 42.28529 | 15.7 |
46.94463 | 40.75055 | 15.2 | |
Finished steel | 56.46081 | 46.01533 | 22.7 |
Coke | 32.89433 | 28.28403 | 16.3 |
Ferroalloy | 1.7467 | 1.43055 | 22.1 |
Heavy rail | 0.17877 | 0.19997 | -10.6 |
Light standard rail | 0.11098 | 0.09134 | 21.5 |
Large profiled bar | 1.01473 | 0.91831 | 10.5 |
Medium and small profiled bar | 2.8395 | 2.26616 | 25.3 |
Bar section | 4.5879 | 3.73912 | 22.7 |
Reinforcing bar | 10.1366 | 8.6786 | 16.8 |
8.03821 | 7.06345 | 13.8 | |
Extremely heavy plate | 4.3132 | 0.31529 | 36.8 |
Heavy steel plate | 1.7726 | 1.27434 | 39.1 |
Medium plate | 3.03705 | 2.27665 | 33.4 |
HR sheet | 0.9005 | 0.61975 | 45.3 |
CR sheet | 1.56383 | 1.24907 | 25.2 |