Globalcrude steelproductionin April this year remained stable month on month and increased by 4.1 percent year on year to 148.3 million metric tons, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel). In the given month, the average capacity utilization of steel mills across the globe was 76.9 percent, up 2.4 percentage points compared to April 2017 and rising by 2.4 percentage points compared to March.
In the January-April period of this year, globalcrude steelproductionincreased to 575.15 million mt, up four percent year on year.
In April this year,crude steeloutput in Asia amounted to 103.45 million mt, rising by 4.2 percent, with 76.69 million mt produced byChina, up 4.8 percent, 8.72 million mt produced by Japan, decreasing by 0.4 percent, 8.69 million mt produced by India, increasing by 5.6 percent, and 5.89 million mt produced by South Korea, rising by 7.1 percent - with all comparisons on year-on-year basis.
EU-28 countries produced 14.87 million mt ofcrude steelin April, up 3.4 percent year on year. In April, Germany's output was 3.77 million mt, falling by 1.7 percent year on year, Italy'scrude steeloutput was 2.06 million mt, up 3.7 percent year on year, and France'scrude steeloutput amounted to 1.39 million mt, up 10.7 percent year on year.
Turkeyproduced three million metric tons ofcrude steelin April, with a 3.1 percent decrease from April last year. Iran'scrude steelproductionin April amounted to 1.95 million mt, up 12.4 percent year on year. The CIS registered acrude steeloutput of 8.39 million mt in April, increasing by 2.4 percent on year-on-year basis, withRussiaproducing 6.03 million mt, rising by 2.4 percent, and Ukraine producing 1.72 million mt, up six percent, both on year-on-year basis.
In North America in April,crude steeloutput totaled ten million mt, increasing by 6.4 percent, with theUSproducing 6.93 million mt, rising by 3.6 percent, and Mexico producing 1.79 million mt, up 13.7 percent, all on year-on-year basis.Crude steeloutput in South America in April amounted to 3.82 million mt, up 4.2 percent from April last year, with Brazil's output totaling three million mt, increasing by 1.9 percent year on year.