On Monday, September 13, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that for the week ending September 11, 2010, US domestic raw steel production was 1,744,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 72.1 percent. This indicates a 17.4 percent year-on-year increase from the same period in 2009.
Production for the week ending September 11, 2010 is up 2.1 percent from the previous week ending September 4, 2010 when production was 1,708,000 tons and the rate of capability utilization was 70.6 percent.
Adjusted year-to-date production through September 11, 2010 was 62,053,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 70.7 percent. That is a 52.3 percent increase from the 40,756,000 tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 48.0 percent.
Broken down by districts, the production for the week ending September 11, 2010 in thousands of net tons is as follows: Northeast Coast: 82; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 127; Lake Erie: 44; Detroit: 133; Indiana/Chicago: 455; Midwest: 246 Southern: 576 and Western: 81.