Raw steel production slipped to 652,000 tons in the Great Lakes region last week, a slight decline from the previous week.
Local steel output sagged by 4,000 tons, or 0.6 percent in the week that ended Saturday, according to an American Iron and Steel Institute estimate. Overall U.S. steel production fell by 2.5 percent, largely because of a drop in output at southern mini-mills.
Most of the raw steel production in the Great Lakes region takes place in the Chicago area, chiefly Lake and Porter counties in Indiana.
Production in the Southern District, typically the nation's second-biggest steel-producing region, plunged to 545,000 tons last week, down from 592,000 tons a week earlier.
Total domestic raw steel production last week was about 1.716 million tons, down from 1.76 million tons a week earlier.
Nationally, domestic steel mills had a capacity utilization rate of 72.6 percent last week, down from 74.6 percent a week earlier. The capacity utilization rate had been 75.8 percent at the same time a year earlier.
Year-to-date output was 13.3 million net tons, at a capacity utilization rate of 76 percent, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. Production so far this year trails the 2014 rate by 1.5 percent, while capacity utilization lags last year by 2.5 percent, a jump of two full percentage points over the previous week.
Source: NW times
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