Adjusted year-to-date production through July 17, 2010 was 48,322,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 70.6 percent. That is a 62.2 percent increase from the 29,797,000 tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 44.6 percent.
Broken down by districts, the production for the week ending July 17, 2010 in thousands of net tons is as follows: Northeast Coast: 119; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 132; Lake Erie: 41; Detroit: 138; Indiana/Chicago: 396; Midwest: 248; Southern: 572 and Western: 80.