According to the data released by the Republic of
Kazakhstan's Agency of Statistics, in the first eight months of 2009 the country registered a 17.8 percent decrease in its crude steel
production and a nine percent decrease in its
production of flat rolled steel (including a 5.2 percent decline in
tinplate), all compared to the data for January-August 2008. The respective figures in metric tons were 2.6 million and 1.96 million (including 132,037 for
tinplate).
During the first eight months of 2009,
Kazakhstan's output of ferroalloys declined by 22.6 percent year on year to 897,988 mt.