According to the preliminary data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global pig iron production in October this year came to 85.3 million metric tons, compared 82.58 million metric tons in the previous month and 85.89 million metric tons in the same month of last year.
Meanwhile, in the first ten months of 2010 world pig iron output amounted to 859.24 million metric tons, increasing 17 percent compared to 746.13 million mt in the corresponding period of 2009.