According to the State Statistics Committee of Kazakhstan, in January-July of the current year Kazakhstan produced 2.926 million mt of crude steel, up 21.4 percent year on year.
Production of flat steel in Kazakhstan in the first seven months increased by 17.4 percent compared to the corresponding period of 2010, rising to 1.893 million mt, while output of galvanized rolled steel went up by 9.7 percent year on year to 363,941 mt.
In the first seven months of 2011, Kazakhstan saw its ferroalloy production fall by 0.2 percent year on year to 983,333 mt.