CISA: Members' daily crude steel output remains stable in mid-May

Daily crude steel output among member mills of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) remained largely stable over May 11-20, edging down by 0.7% or 14,000 tonnes/day from the first 10 days of May to average 2.1 million t/d, according to the association's latest release published on May 26.

Compared with the same period last year, the figure represented a larger decline of 4.7% though, results from the CISA survey showed. Based on the performance of its member mills, CISA estimated that nationwide daily crude steel output fell by 0.9% from May 1-10 to average 2.81 million t/d during