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April 27, 2015
Weekly Raw Steel Production Rises for Third Week
Written by Brett Linton
When we speak with the domestic steel mills one of the things we hear from them is that their order books have improved over the last three weeks. The weekly raw steel production report provided by the AISI is also catching this change in ordering and production patterns.
For the week ending April 25, 2015, the American Iron & Steel Institute (AISI) estimated the U.S. steel industry produced 1,707,000 net tons of raw steel, a 3.1 percent increase over the previous week but a 7.3 percent decrease over the same week one year ago. The estimated capacity utilization rate is 72.2 percent, up from 70.0 percent last week but down from 76.6 percent last year.
