Ukraine rose to 11th place in the world ranking of steelmaking

 

 According to the results of the work of metallurgical enterprises in 2020, Ukraine took 11th place in the ranking of major world steel producers (64 countries), compiled by the World Steel Association (Worldsteel). In December, the country increased steel production by 22.1% compared to the same period in 2019 - to 1.906 million tons, moving from 13th to 12th place.

In December, an increase in steelmaking was recorded until December 2019 in most of the top ten countries, except Japan, the United States and Russia reference to the CTS.

The top ten steel-producing countries in December are as follows: China (91.252 million tons, an increase of 7.7%), India (9.796 million tons, + 4.4%), Japan (7.526 million tons, -3.3 %), USA (6.434 million tons, -11.8%), Russia (6.110 million tons, -0.8%), South Korea (5.952 million tons, + 1.2%), Turkey (3.403 million tons, + 7.7%), Germany (3.137 million tons, + 10.6%), Brazil (2.886 million tons, + 17.2%), Iran (2.660 million tons, + 19.6%).

For the whole of 2020, the top ten steel-producing countries look like this: China (1 billion 52.999 million tons, + 5.2%), India (99.570 million tons, -10.6%), Japan (83.194 million tons, -16, 2%), Russia (73.4 million tons, + 2.6%), USA (72.690 million tons, -17.2%), South Korea (67.121 million tons, -6%), Turkey (35.763 million tons, + 6%), Germany (35.658 million tons, -10%), Brazil (30.971 million tons, -4.9%), Iran (29.030 million tons, + 13.4%).

Next are Ukraine (20.616 million tons, -1.1%), Taiwan (China, 20.570 million tons, -6.3%), Italy (20.2 million tons, -12.9%), Vietnam (19 , 5 million tons, + 11.6%) and Mexico (16.854 million tons, -8.3%).

In total, in 2020, 64 countries produced 1 billion 829.140 million tons of steel, which is 0.9% less than in 2019.

It should be noted that in 2019 Ukraine produced 20.848 million tons of steel and took 13th place.