World crude steel output up 0.6 in August

摘要

World crude steel production rose for the first time this year in August, edging up by 0.6% from a year earlier, according to the World Steel Association (Worldsteel). A total of 156.2 million tonnes of crude steel were produced by the 64 countries that report their statistics to the association in August, compared with 156 million tonnes in the same month in 2019. China, the world’s biggest steelmaking country, produced 94.9 million tonnes of crude steel in August 2020, up by 8.4% from 87.3 million tonnes in August 2019.