CISA: Members' early Feb daily steel output recovers

Daily crude steel output among the member mills of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) recovered over February 1-10, rising by 2.6% or 53,300 tonnes/day from late January, to average 2.07 million t/d, according to the association's latest release on Wednesday.

Market sources attributed the improvement in daily output to the fact that CISA members had maintained normal operations on some blast furnaces over the period. Also, early February's daily crude steel output was higher by 0.4% from the corresponding period last year, the CISA data showed. Based on the performance of