Adjusted year-to-date production through March 6, 2021 was 16,112,000 net tons, at a capability utilization rate of 76.6 percent.

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The amount exceeded the previous record of 1.08 billion tons in 2017, said the General Administration of Customs.

In the first ten days of February 2021, key iron and steel enterprises produced 21.5443 million tons of crude steel.

The company's average capacity utilisation was 96% during the month of January 2021.

India's crude steel production fell by 10.6 per cent to 99.6 million tonnes (MT) in 2020, according to the worldsteel.

In December 2020, U.S. steel mills shipped 7,049,785 net tons, a 4.4 percent increase from the 6,753,447 net tons shipped in the previous month.

The increase took overall shipments for the last year to 407mn, slightly higher than a government-set target for the year of 400mn t.