ASIAN COMPANIES LEAD WORLD STEEL PRODUCTION

The Steel Producers Ranking is dominated by Asian Companies, with the only exception of Arcelor Mittal as  Top Producer.

Top 20 List (According to World Steel Association 2011 figures)
Figures in Mt per year
Arcelor Mittal             97,2  Luxembourg
Hebei Iron&Steel       44,4   China
Baosteel Group          43,3   China
Posco                         39,1   South Corea
Wuhan Iron&Steel      37,7   China
Nippon Steel              33,4   Japan
Shagang                      31,9  China
Shougang                    30,0  China
JFE Holdings               29,9  Japan
Ansteel                        29,8  China
Shandong Iron&Steel   24,0 China
Tata Steel                     23,8 India
US Steel Co.                22,0 USA
Gerdau                         20,5 Brasil
Nucor                          19,9 USA
Bohai Iron&Steel         19,2 China
ThyssenKrupp             17,9 Germany
Evraz                           16,8 Russia
Maanshan Iron&Steel  16,7 China
Benxi Steel                  16,5 China
Hyunday Steel             16,3 South Corea

From the Top 20 List, 15 companies are Asian, beeing 10 of them chineese.

In the Top 10 List the position of Asian Companies is even better: 9 out of 10.

The World Steel Industry is driven by Asian Companies, with China as a Leading Country.

The first USA company is US Steel Corporation in position number 13th. The production of biggest US based Steel Company is half of Hebei (position 2nd).

Arcelor Mittal leads the World Steel Producers List well ahead number two. Nevertheless, as shown during the economic crisis that hit the steel industry in July 2008, the leader is not able to make more a tendency in the market due to the very large number of big steel producers in China.

A clear picture of the movement of the steel industry to China is that ThyssenKrupp -a simbol of the european steel production, ranks at position number 17th with 17,9 Mt.