According to the preliminary data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global pig iron production in September this year came to 81.6 million metric tons, compared 84.84 million metric tons in the previous month and 82.13 million metric tons in the same month of last year.
Meanwhile, in the first nine months of 2010 world pig iron output amounted to 772.96 million metric tons, increasing 17 percent compared to 660.44 million mt in the corresponding period of 2009.