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World steel production forecast for 2009

Steel industry consultants MEPS have just published their forecast for 2009 world steel production. The output forecast for crude steel is 1165 million metric tonnes. This is a 12% drop on global 2008 steelmaking production volumes. For full article, see http://www.meps.co.uk/article-key-out-q2-09.htm

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World crude steel output forecast

MEPS have just published a medium term world crude steel production forecast. Please see table below. This shows year 2011 crude steel production at ~1.6 billion tonnes, which is some 28% up on 2006 world output. China alone accounts for 208 mt of this increase. The implication is that Chinese crude steel capacity is coming onstream at a rate close to one million tonnes a week ... Wow !

Crude Steel Production Forecast (millions tonnes)
Region	2006	2007	2011
W. Europe	235.1	242.3	263.0
Former USSR	119.8	125.3	153.0
NAFTA	131.5	133.3	135.5
South America	45.3	47.5	61.5
Africa/Middle East	34.0	34.9	49.0
China	422.1	492.5	630.0
Japan	116.2	119.7	122.0
Rest of Asia	136.3	145.8	177.0
Oceania	8.7	8.8	9.0
World	1249.2	1350.0	1600.0
Source: MEPS - Global Iron & Steel Production to 2011

For original MEPS report, visit http://www.meps.co.uk/global-production2011.htm

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