Turkey has reduced steel production in November by 8%
Turkish raw steel production in November compared to the same month last year, showed a decrease of 8.1%, and in comparison with October, increased by 7.4% and amounted to 2.88 million tons. This was reported in the Turkish steel producers ' Association.
In November, the metal production in steelmaking units decreased by 11% compared to the same month last year, and blast furnace production decreased by 1.7%.
Total production of Turkish steel in January-November fell compared with the same period last year (APPG) of 10.4% from 34.4 million tons to 30.9 million tons. Installing electric arc furnaces reduced the output by 12.6% to 20.9 million tons; the remaining plants produced 10 million tons of steel, which is 5.3% lower than the same period last year.
Turkish crude steel production (thousand tons)
| 2018-11 months. | 2019-11 months. | % ISM. 19/18 | |
| procurement | 22 885 | 19 071 | of-16,7 |
| slabs | 11 541 | 11 787 | 2,1 |
| TOTAL | 34 425 | 30 857 | -10,4 |
| E. O. | 23 918 | 20 903 | -12,6 |
| BOF | 10 507 | 9955 | -5,3 |