In the week ending September 5, 2009, domestic raw steel production was 1,342,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 56.2 percent. Production was 2,017,000 tons in the week ending September 5, 2008, while the capability utilization then was 84.5 percent. The current week production represents a 33.4 percent decrease from the same period in the previous year. Production for the week ending September 5, 2009 is up 2.4 percent from the previous week ending August 29, 2009 when production was 1,311,000 tons and the rate of capability utilization was 54.9 percent.
Adjusted year-to-date production through September 5, 2009 was 39,185,000 tons, at a capability utilization rate of 46.4 percent. That is a 48.6 percent decrease from the 76,196,000 tons during the same period last year, when the capability utilization rate was 89.7 percent.
Broken down by districts, here's production for the week ending September 5, 2009 in thousands of net tons: Northeast Coast: 108; Pittsburgh/Youngstown: 92; Lake Erie: 12; Detroit: 64; Indiana/Chicago: 384; Midwest: 149; Southern: 464 and Western: 69.
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