Adjusted year-to-date production through July 10, 2010 was 46,496,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 70.6 percent. That is a 62.9 percent increase from the 28,543,000 tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 44.6 percent.
Broken down by districts, the production for the week ending July 10, 2010 in thousands of net tons is as follows: Northeast Coast: 122; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 134; Lake Erie: 40; Detroit: 131; Indiana/Chicago: 408; Midwest: 239; Southern: 568 and Western: 80.US weekly raw steel production, Week ending July 10
On Monday, July 12, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that for the week ending July 12, 2010, US domestic raw steel production was 1,722,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 71.2 percent. This indicates a 37.4 percent year-on-year increase from the same period in 2009.
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