According to the data released by the Republic of Kazakhstan's Agency of Statistics, in the first two months of 2009 the country registered an 18.5 percent decrease in its crude steel production, a 4.8 percent decrease in its production of flat rolled steel (including a 37 percent decline in tinplate), and a 41.5 percent decrease in its ferroalloys production, all compared to the data for January-February 2008.
The respective figures in metric tons were 560,393, 464,948 (including 20,658 for tinplate), and 166,063.