Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region-based Chinese steelmaker Liuzhou Iron and Steel Co. (Liuzhou Steel) has announced that in the first nine months of this year its finished steel output amounted to 5.5237 million mt, up 6.16 percent year on year, including 40,300 mt of medium-sized sections, down 46.69 percent, 819,300 mt of medium steel plate, up 57.29 percent, and 4.6641 million mt of small-sized sections, up 1.25 percent, all year on year.