Shandong Province-based Chinese steelmaker Shandong Iron and Steel Group (Shandong Steel Group) has announced that it respectively produced 12.46 million mt, 12.95 million mt and 12.30 million mt of pig iron, crude steel and finished steel in the first half the current year, while achieving an operating revenue of RMB 91.4 billion ($13.3 billion) and a gross profit of RMB 2.5 billion ($0.36 billion) in the given period.