Hot Rolled Steel Coil The operating rate of the country's key hot-rolled strip steel producers this week was 75.00%, up by 4.00 percentage points compared with the previous week and by 10.00 percentage points compared with the previous month; the capacity utilization rate was 72.16%, down by 0.76 percentage points compared with the previous week and up by 6.30 percentage points compared with the previous month; the actual production of steel mills this week was 213.40 million tons, down by 2.25 million tons compared with the previous week and up by 18.62 million tons compared with the previous month;Carbon Steel Coil the inventory in the steel mills' warehouses was 38.13 million tons, down by 0.47 million tons compared with the previous week and down by 1.34 million tons compared with the previous month.
The overall production rate of hot-rolled strip steel in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region was 75.00%, Alloy Steel Coil up by 6.67 percentage points compared with the previous week and by 18.33 percentage points compared with the previous month; the capacity utilization rate was 74.06%, down by 0.09 percentage point compared with the previous week and up by 12.05 percentage points compared with the previous month.
The production rate of 145mm steel strips in Tangshan was 45.45%, remaining unchanged compared with the previous week and rising by 36.36 percentage points compared with the previous month. The production capacity utilization rate this week was 43.73%, decreasing by 6.01 percentage points compared with the previous week and rising by 22.69 percentage points compared with the previous month. The production rate of steel strips over 232mm was 91.67%, rising by 12.50 percentage points compared with the previous week and rising by 25.00 percentage points compared with the previous month. The production capacity utilization rate this week was 88.51%, rising by 2.91 percentage points compared with the previous week and rising by 14.12 percentage points compared with the previous month.