The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that for the month of January 2016, U.S. steel mills shipped 7,031,307 net tons, a 7.2 percent increase from the 6,556,342 net tons shipped in the previous month, December 2015, and a 9.4 percent decrease from the 7,762,742 net tons shipped in January 2015.
A comparison of January 2016 shipments to the previous month of December 2015 shows the following changes: hot dipped galvanized sheets, up 13 percent, cold rolled sheets, up 12 percent and hot rolled sheets, up 2 percent.
Published in the April 2016 Edition of American Recycler News