{"id":782674,"date":"2026-09-25T23:56:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782674\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T23:56:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:56:44","slug":"turkiyes-crude-steel-output-rises-6-8-percent-in-january-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/782674\/","title":{"rendered":"T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s crude steel output rises 6.8 percent in January-August"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISTANBUL
\n\"T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s<\/p>\n

T\u00fcrkiye<\/a> produced 3.4 million metric tons of crude steel<\/a> in August, down 0.4 percent from the same month a year earlier, according to data from the World Steel Association (worldsteel).<\/p>\n

In the January-August period, the country\u2019s crude steel production increased 6.8 percent year-on-year to 26.6 million tons, making T\u00fcrkiye the world\u2019s seventh-largest steel producer.<\/p>\n

Global crude steel production fell 1.2 percent from a year earlier to 144.2 million tons in August.<\/p>\n

China, the world\u2019s largest steel producer, saw its output<\/a> decline 3.7 percent to 74.6 million tons during the month, while India increased production by 4.6 percent to 14.8 million tons.<\/p>\n

The U.S. produced an estimated 7.3 million tons of crude steel in August, up 3 percent from a year earlier, while Japan\u2019s output rose 0.4 percent to 6.7 million tons. Russia\u2019s production was estimated at 5.5 million tons, down 0.3 percent, while South Korea produced 5.4 million tons, up 2.6 percent.<\/p>\n

Global crude steel production totaled 1.23 billion tons in the first eight months of the year, down 0.7 percent compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n

During the January-August period, China\u2019s steel output declined 3.1 percent year-on-year to 651.9 million tons, while India\u2019s production increased 6 percent to 115.9 million tons.<\/p>\n

In the same period, U.S. crude steel production rose an estimated 5.5 percent to 57.5 million tons. Japan produced 54 million tons, down 0.2 percent, while Russia\u2019s output fell 5.1 percent to 43.8 million tons. South Korea increased production by 2.8 percent to 42.8 million tons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISTANBUL T\u00fcrkiye produced 3.4 million metric tons of crude steel in August, down 0.4 percent from the same…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,248673,1294,148788,40706,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-782674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-crude-steel","tag-economy","tag-output","tag-trkiye","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}