According to the latest figures provided by Italian steel producers association Federacciai, Italy's hot rolled flat steel output amounted to 1 million mt in March this year, down 33.7 percent year on year. March is the seventh month in a row in which a year-on-year fall in output has been recorded.
In the first three months of the current year, Italy's hot rolled flat steel output totaled 2.866 million metric tons, falling by 31.7 percent or 1.329 million mt year-on-year.