Adjusted year-to-date production through September 4, 2010 was 60,309,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 70.7 percent. That is a 53.6 percent increase from the 39,271,000 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 4, 2010 in thousands of net tons is as follows: Northeast Coast: 78; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 128; Lake Erie: 43; Detroit: 129; Indiana/Chicago: 444; Midwest: 247 Southern: 559 and Western: 80.