However, production for the week ending May 29, 2010 declined 1.2 percent from the previous week, when production was reported at 1,787,000 tons with a capability utilization rate of 73.9 percent.
Adjusted year-to-date production through May 29, 2010 was 35,963,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 69.9 percent. This represents a 66.9 percent increase from the 21,547,000 tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 42.5 percent.
Broken down by districts, the production for the week ending May 29, 2010 in thousands of net tons is as follows: Northeast Coast: 137; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 121; Lake Erie: 44; Detroit: 122; Indiana/Chicago: 465; Midwest: 236; Southern: 573 and Western: 68.