Iranian steelmaker Esfahan Steel's billet and bloom output in the last Iranian year ended on March 20, 2011 amounted to 2.4 million mt, while its long steel product (mainly I-beam, rebar and wire rod) output reached 2.83 million mt, increasing respectively by 18 percent and 12 percent year on year, according to the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO).
As SteelOrbis previously reported, Esfahan Steel's managing director Safarali Barati had said that the company was expecting to produce 2.7 million mt of long products in the abovementioned period.
Early in 2010, Esfahan Steel significantly increased its production capacity, by commissioning its third blast furnace with an annual production capacity of 1.4 million mt.