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Matra Steel is an independent publication covering the global steel industry: market news, production and demand data, trade, and the companies and technologies reshaping steel.
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The measures that tell the steel industry where it stands: production, capacity, and benchmark prices, published as their sources release them, dated, and linked. The full board is on the Markets page.
World crude steel output, August 2026
144.2 Mt
Production by the 70 countries reporting to worldsteel, down 1.2 percent on August 2025.
Source: World Steel Association, August 2026 release.
World output, January to August 2026
1,225.2 Mt
Eight months of global crude steel production, down 0.7 percent on the same period of 2025.
Source: World Steel Association, August 2026 release.
China crude steel output, August 2026
74.6 Mt
The world's largest producer, down 3.7 percent on August 2025; 651.9 Mt in the first eight months of 2026.
Source: World Steel Association, August 2026 release.
India crude steel output, August 2026
14.8 Mt
Up 4.6 percent on August 2025, the fastest growth among the largest producers; 115.9 Mt year to date, up 6.0 percent.
Source: World Steel Association, August 2026 release.
US raw steel production, week ending 17 October 2026
1,870,000 net tons
Up 8.6 percent on the same week of 2025 and 4.1 percent on the week before.
Source: American Iron and Steel Institute, Week ending 17 October 2026.
US capability utilization
80.9%
The share of US steelmaking capability in use in the week ending 17 October 2026, against 75.1 percent a year earlier.
Source: American Iron and Steel Institute, Week ending 17 October 2026.
Latest news
October 2026
World crude steel production came to 144.2 million tonnes in August 2026, down 1.2 percent on August 2025, according to the Read the story
October 2026 Global steel demand will be essentially unchanged in 2026 at 1,722 million tonnes, the Read the story
Week ending 17 October 2026 United States raw steel production reached 1,870,000 net tons in the week ending 17 October 2026, at a capability utilization rate of 80.9 percent, ac...worldsteel holds 2026 steel demand flat, sees growth return in 2027
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