Production for the week ending September 11, 2010 is up 2.1 percent from the previous week ending September 4, 2010 when production was 1,708,000 tons and the rate of capability utilization was 70.6 percent.
Adjusted year-to-date production through September 11, 2010 was 62,053,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 70.7 percent. That is a 52.3 percent increase from the 40,756,000 tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 48.0 percent.
Broken down by districts, the production for the week ending September 11, 2010 in thousands of net tons is as follows: Northeast Coast: 82; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 127; Lake Erie: 44; Detroit: 133; Indiana/Chicago: 455; Midwest: 246 Southern: 576 and Western: 81.