In early December 2023, key statistical steel companies produced a total of 193.161,000 tons of crude steel, 18.1432 million tons of pig iron, and 19.1252 million tons of steel. Among them, crude steel production was 1.931,600 tons per day, a decrease of 4.19% over the previous month.
The Zhitong Finance app learned that on December 14, according to information from the China Iron and Steel Association, in early December 2023, key statistics steel companies produced a total of 19.361 million tons of crude steel, 18.1432 million tons of pig iron, and 19.1252 million tons of steel. Among them, crude steel production was 1.931,600 tons per day, a decrease of 4.19% over the same period last year, a decrease of 2.77% compared to the same caliber last year, and a decrease of 0.14% compared to the same caliber in the same period last year.
Among them, pig iron produced 1,814,300 tons per day, down 3.21% month-on-month; compared to the same caliber, up 1.76% compared to the same period last year; compared to the same caliber, up 10.51% compared to the same period last year; steel production was 1,912,500 tons, down 12.26% month-on-month (affected by the centralized settlement of some member companies at the end of the month, the daily production of steel increased significantly from month to month, and there was also a big difference between the changes in iron and steel production. Excluding relevant influencing factors, the daily steel production of member companies in this season fell 4.48% month-on-month). Compared with the same caliber, the same caliber increased 0.79% in the same period last year, and the same caliber increased by 6.29% compared to the same period last year.
According to this estimate, the country produced 2,484,600 tons of crude steel per day, a decrease of 3.57% over the previous year, produced 2.183,900 tons of iron per day, a decrease of 2.87% over the previous year, and produced 3.4778 million tons of steel per day, a decrease of 3.81% over the previous month.
In early December 2023, the steel inventory volume of key statistics enterprises was 14.106 million tons, an increase of 1.142,900 tons, an increase of 8.82% over the previous month (that is, late November); a decrease of 583,600 tons, a decrease of 3.97% from the same period last month; an increase of 1,031,000 tons, an increase of 7.89% over the end of last year; a decrease of 1,234,600 tons, a decrease of 8.05% over the same period last year; an increase of 763,500 tons, an increase of 5.72% over the same period last year.