Adjusted year-to-date production through July 24, 2010 was 50,064,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 70.7 percent. This reflects a 61.3 percent increase from the 31,052,000 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 24, 2010 in thousands of net tons is as follows: Northeast Coast: 122; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 132; Lake Erie: 42; Detroit: 128; Indiana/Chicago: 410; Midwest: 241; Southern: 586 and Western: 81.