According to the preliminary data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global pig iron production in November this year came to 82.88 million metric tons, decreasing by 7.4 percent as compared to the previous month and down 0.4 percent year on year. In the first 11 months of the year, world pig iron output amounted to 996.14 million metric tons, rising by 6.5 percent compared to the corresponding period of 2010.
In November this year, the top pig iron producer in the world according to worldsteel was China with 45.9 million mt, down 10 percent compared to October this year and constituting 55.4 percent of global pig iron production.