Taking a bird's-eye view of the global steel pipe and tube market

摘要

With the exception of the recent crisis year, 2009, global steel pipe production has moved in one direction over the last 10 years: upward. Regrettably this trend seems to have stopped. After only marginal growth in 2015, output dropped in 2016 by 3 percent to 164 million tons worldwide, according to data collected by the German Steel Tube Association, Dusseldorf, Germany. Although steel pipe production was markedly lower in North America, the CIS, and China, European steel pipe producers did significantly better. Across the EU steel pipe producers increased their output by 4 percent to 14 million tons. In Germany output rose 5 percent over the previous year to 2.6 million tons.