Japan ferrosilicon (>55%) imports down 22.40% YoY in 2020.

Japan ferrosilicon (≤55%) imports up 40.92% YoY in December, 2020.

Japan ferrosilicon (≤55%) imports down 46.43% YoY in 2020.

The amount exceeded the previous record of 1.08 billion tons in 2017, said the General Administration of Customs.

In the first ten days of February 2021, key iron and steel enterprises produced 21.5443 million tons of crude steel.

The company's average capacity utilisation was 96% during the month of January 2021.

India's crude steel production fell by 10.6 per cent to 99.6 million tonnes (MT) in 2020, according to the worldsteel.

In December 2020, U.S. steel mills shipped 7,049,785 net tons, a 4.4 percent increase from the 6,753,447 net tons shipped in the previous month.