The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that for the month of November 2016, U.S. steel mills shipped 6,724,277 net tons, a 1.6 percent decrease from the 6,832,801 net tons shipped in the previous month, October 2016, and a 4.1 percent increase from the 6,457,870 net tons shipped in November 2015.
Shipments year-to-date in 2016 are 79,360,096 net tons, a 0.8 percent decrease from shipments of 79,990,315 net tons in the first eleven months of 2015.
A comparison of November 2016 shipments to the previous month shows the following changes: hot rolled sheet, up 5 percent; hot dipped galvanized sheet and strip, down 6 percent, and cold rolled sheets, down 6 percent.
Published in the February 2017 Edition of American Recycler News