German Business Daily reported on February 19. According to the German Steel Economic Union,German crude steel production in January was 3.3 million tons, up 6% from a year earlier.

According to the Ministry of Finance, driven by increased demand from Bangladesh, Vietnam and Taiwan, Japan’s exports of scrap steel rose 23% to 9.39 million tons in 2020, Which reached an 11-year high.

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.

According to the German Iron and Steel Union (WV Stahl) data, German crude steel production rose 10.7% to 3.14 million tons in December 2020.

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.

In 2020, the total output of vanadium pentoxide was 19.5 mlb, a decrease of 3% from the same period last year. (Total production in 2019 is 2020 mlb)