In 2011, the
pig iron output of the city of Linfen in
China's Shanxi Province accounted for around one third of the province's
pig iron output in the given year, according to local media sources.
At present, the city of Linfen has 41 steel enterprises with a total of 58 blast furnaces, capable of producing around 20.76 million mt of
pig iron each year.
In 2011, the outputs of
pig iron, crude steel and finished steel in the city of Linfen respectively amounted to 10.54 million mt, 8.64 million mt and 9.43 million mt, up 18.52 percent, 12.19 percent and 31.01 percent year on year. The
pig iron output constituted 31.3 percent of the total output in the province.