Friday, July 31, 2009

Kazakhstan Reports Lower Steel, Ferroalloy Output

According to the data released by the Republic of Kazakhstan’s Agency of Statistics, in the H1 of 2009 the country registered a 20.5% year-on-year decrease in its crude steel production but only a 1% decrease in its production of flat rolled steel all compared to the data for January to June 2008.

The respective figures in tonnes were 1.878 million and 1.608 million. During the first six months of 2009, Kazakhstan’s output of ferroalloys went down by 27.5% YoY to 627,869 tonnes.

Source: Steel Guru

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