Kazakhstan issues Jan-Oct steel production data

According to the data released by the Republic of Kazakhstan's Agency of Statistics, in the first ten months of 2009 the country registered a 10.5 percent decrease in its crude steel production but a 3.1 percent increase in its production of flat rolled steel (including two percent growth in galvanized steel and a 4.4 percent increase in tinplate), all compared to the data for January-October 2008. The respective figures in metric tons were 3.415 million and 2.537 million (including 480,678 for galvanized steel and 167,282 for tinplate).
 
During the first ten months of 2009, Kazakhstan's output of ferroalloys declined by 19.1 percent year on year to 1.176 million mt.