Profit Contraction & Enhanced Environmental Protection May Lead to Decline in Hot Metal Production

Oct 15, 2025, at 5:18 pm
SMM

According to the SMM survey, on October 15, the blast furnace operating rate at the 242 steel mills surveyed by SMM was 87.14%, down 0.15 percentage points WoW.

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