According to the data released by the Republic of
Kazakhstan's Agency of Statistics, in the first eleven months of 2009 the country registered a 7.6 percent decrease in its crude steel
production but a 4.1 percent increase in its
production of flat rolled steel (including a 5.4 percent growth in galvanized steel and a seven percent increase in tinplate), all compared to the data for January-November 2008. The respective figures in metric tons were about 3.74 million and 2.73 million (including 528,700 for galvanized steel and 180,410 for tinplate).
During the first eleven months of 2009,
Kazakhstan's output of ferroalloys declined by 14.1 percent year on year to 1.318 million mt.