Global steel production for 9 months to Sept up 5.6% y/y

Global crude steel production for the first nine months of this year reached 1.27-billion tonnes – a 5.6% year-on-year increase. The World Steel Association (worldsteel) on Monday reported that Asia had produced 876.3-million tonnes of crude steel in the first nine months of this year, an increase of 5.9% over the comparable period in 2016.