June Steel Shipments Up 1.4 Percent From June 2016
time2017/08/10
June Steel Shipments Up 1.4 Percent From June 2016
The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported today that for the month of June 2017, U.S. steel mills shipped 7,736,846 net tons, a 1.0 percent increase from the 7,660,969 net tons shipped in the previous month, May 2017, and a 1.4 percent increase from the 7,628,953 net tons shipped in June 2016. Shipments year-to-date in 2017 are 45,459,086 net tons, a 3.0 percent increase vs. 2016 shipments of 44,138,403 net tons for six months.
A comparison of June shipments to the previous month of May shows the following changes: hot dipped galvanized sheets and strip, up 1 percent, hot rolled sheets, no change and cold rolled sheets, down 4 percent.