According to the data released by the Republic of Kazakhstan's Agency of Statistics, in the first half of 2009 the country registered a 20.5 percent decrease in its crude steel production and only a one percent decrease in its production of flat rolled steel (including a 9.4 percent decline in tinplate and a 6.7 percent drop in galvanized steel), all compared to the data for January-June 2008.
The respective figures in metric tons were 1.878 million and 1.608 million (including 94,891 for tinplate and 268,607 for galvanized steel).
During the first six months of 2009, Kazakhstan's output of ferroalloys went down by 27.5 percent year on year to 627,869 mt.