In the week ending April 3, 2010, US domestic raw steel production was 1,712,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 70.8 percent. Production was 981,000 tons in the week ending April 3, 2009, while the capability utilization then was 41.0 percent. The current week production represents a 74.5 percent increase from the same period in the previous year. Production for the week ending April 3, 2010 is down 1.3 percent from the previous week ending March 27, 2010 when production was 1,734,000 tons and the rate of capability utilization was 71.7 percent.
Adjusted year-to-date production through April 3, 2010 was 21,833,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 68.0 percent. That is a 61.4 percent increase from the 13,529,000 tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 42.4 percent.
Broken down by districts, here's production for the week ending April 3, 2010 in thousands of net tons: Northeast Coast: 146; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 111; Lake Erie: 47; Detroit: 120; Indiana/Chicago: 467; Midwest: 235; Southern: 510 and Western: 76.