SMM

According to the SMM survey, as of May 21, the operating rate of blast furnaces at 242 steel mills surveyed by SMM was 88.41%, down 0.23 percentage point WoW. The capacity utilisation rate of blast furnaces was 90.08%, down 0.37 percentage point WoW. The daily average pig iron production of the sampled steel mills was 2.4303 million mt, down 10,000 mt WoW.