India Steel Market Watch
September 29: India’s crude steel production in August 2015 fell 3.1% to 7.42 million tons (mt) over the July 2015 production level of 7.66 mt, latest provisional steel ministry data showed.
In August 2014, crude steel production was at 7.45 mt. This shows that crude steel production fell 0.4% year-on-year.
In April-August, production by integrated steel producers like SAIL, RINL, Tata Steel, JSW, Essar and JSPL rose 4.4% year-on-year to 19.83 mt.
Production by other steel producers fell 2% to 17.97 mt in April-August.
Total crude steel production in April-August, 2015-16 was up 1.3% to 37.81 mt as against 37.33 mt in the same period last year.