According to the preliminary data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global pig iron production in March this year came to 96.43 million metric tons, increasing by 8.13 percent as compared to the previous month and up 3.08 percent year on year. In the first quarter of the year, world pig iron output amounted to 277.32 million metric tons, rising by 2.64 percent compared to the corresponding period of 2011.
In the first quarter of this year, the top pig iron producer in the world according to worldsteel was China again with 165.19 million mt, up 4.94 percent compared to Q1 2011 and constituting 60 percent of global pig iron production.