Italy's hot rolled flat steel output amounted to 988,000 metric tons in April this year, down 23.6 percent year on year, according to the latest figures from Italian steel producers association Federacciai. This is the smallest year-on-year decrease recorded so far in 2013.
In the first four months of the current year, Italy's hot rolled flat steel output totaled 3.872 million metric tons, down 29.5 percent or 1.617 million mt year on year.