January Steel Shipments Up 7.5 Percent from December
time2017/03/10
January Steel Shipments Up 7.5 Percent from December
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported today that for the month of January 2017, U.S. steel mills shipped 7,708,416 net tons, a 7.5 percent increase from the 7,173,245 net tons shipped in the previous month, December 2016, and a 9.6 percent increase from the 7,031,307 net tons shipped in January 2016.
A comparison of January 2017 shipments to the previous month of December 2016 shows the following changes: hot dipped galvanized sheets, up 14 percent, cold rolled sheets, up 13 percent and hot rolled sheets, up 4 percent.