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In the week ending August 28, 2010, domestic
raw steel production was 1,698,000 net tons while the capability
utilization rate was 70.2 percent. Production was 1,381,000
tons in the week ending August 28, 2009, while the capability
utilization then was 57.7 percent. The current week production
represents a 23.0 percent increase from the same period
in the previous year. Production for the week ending August 28, 2010
is down 1.9 percent from the previous week
ending August 21, 2010 when production was 1,730,000 tons and the
rate of capability utilization was 71.5 percent.
Adjusted year-to-date production through August 28, 2010 was
58,601,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 70.7 percent.
That is a 54.9 percent increase from the 37,830,000 tons during the
same period last year, when the capability utilization rate
was 46.2 percent.
Broken down by districts, here's production for the week
ending August 28, 2010 in thousands of net tons: Northeast Coast:
84; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 126; Lake Erie: 44; Detroit: 109;
Indiana/Chicago: 435; Midwest: 244; Southern: 578 and Western:
78.
(Estimate based on reports from companies
representing about 50% of the Industry's Raw Steel Capability + includes
revisions for previous months)
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