The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported today that for the month of January 2019, US steel mills shipped 8,079,757 net tons, a 3.5 percent increase from the 7,804,093 net tons shipped in the previous month, December 2018, and a 5.8 percent increase from the 7,636,321 net tons shipped in January 2018.
A comparison of January shipments to the previous month of December shows the following changes: cold rolled sheet, up 7 percent; hot dipped galvanized sheet and strip, up 5 percent; and hot rolled sheets, up 3 percent.