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US domestic Raw Steel production advances 6.4% to 1,773,000 net tons
UNITED STATES July 25 2017 2:36 PM
NEW YORK (Scrap Register): United States domestic raw steel production advanced by 6.4 percent to 1,773,000 net tons in the week ended on July 22, 2017, while the capability utilization rate was 76.1 percent, according to the latest figures released by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI).
US raw steel production was 1,667,000 net tons in the week ending July 22, 2016 while the capability utilization then was 71.3 percent.
Production for the week ended July 22, 2017 is up 0.6 percent from the previous week ended July 15, 2017 when production was 1,763,000 net tons and the rate of capability utilization was 75.6 percent.
Adjusted year-to-date production through July 22, 2017 was 50,339,000 net tons, at a capability utilization rate of 74.5 percent. That is up 2.5 percent from the 49,126,000 net tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 72.4 percent.