Steel production for the Great Lakes region increased to 667,000 net tons last week, a 0.7 percent increase over the 662,000 net tons of output for the previous week. The Great Lakes region once again led the nation in terms of steel production. It produced 42 percent of total production in the US with the South following at 37 percent.
Most of the raw steel production in the Great Lakes region takes place in the Chicago area, , mainly Lake and Porter counties. Indiana, which also has steelmaking operations in Fort Wayne and Crawfordsville, has led the nation in steel production for 35 years, largely because of the big mills on the Lake Michigan shoreline in the Calumet Region.
As recently reported by SteelOrbis, US steel production increased by 32,000 net tons last week to 1.71 million net tons, an increase of 1.9 percent, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. Thus far in 2017, U.S. steel production has increased by approximately 5.8 percent relative to the same period in 2016.