The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that for the month of August 2016, U.S. steel mills shipped 7,542,605 net tons, a 2.6 percent increase from the 7,352,698 net tons shipped in the previous month, July 2016, and a 1.0 percent increase from the 7,470,120 net tons shipped in August 2015.
Shipments year-to-date in 2016 are 59,033,706 net tons, essentially unchanged from shipments of 59,042,310 net tons in the first eight months of 2015.
A comparison of August 2016 shipments to the previous month shows the following changes: hot dipped galvanized sheets and strip, up 11 percent; cold rolled sheets, up 6 percent, and hot rolled sheets, up 2 percent.
Published in the November 2016 Edition of American Recycler News