According to the data released by the Republic of
Kazakhstan's Agency of Statistics, in Q1 this year
Kazakhstan registered a 36 percent increase year on year in its
crude steel production and a 21.4 percent year-on-year growth in its
production of flat rolled steel, rising to 1.235 million mt and 794,820 mt respectively. Meanwhile,
Kazakhstan's tinplate
production for the first three months of this year amounted to 57,853 mt - up 19 percent year on year, while its
galvanized steel output came to 154,361 mt - up 9.9 percent year on year.
In Q1,
Kazakhstan's output of ferroalloys went down by 1.8 percent year on year to 419,179 mt, its sintered and non-sintered
iron ore output increased by 1.85 percent to 5.8 million mt, and its
iron ore pellet
production went up by 2.65 percent to 2.23 million mt, all compared to the same quarter last year. The country's coal output in January-March this year increased by 12.7 percent year on year to 30.874 million mt, while its coke output went up 3.5 percent year on year to 688,600 mt.