According to the data from the German Steel (WV Stahl), the production of German crude steel totaled around 2.5 million tons in June, sliding by 27.3% compared to the same month a year ago.
Among them, the output of blast furnace crude steel had a year-on-year decrease of 35.8% to around 1.5 million tons, and that of electric arc furnace crude steel had a year-on-year reduction of 7.3% to roughly 940,000 tons.
In the second quarter of this year, German crude steel output dropped by 26% year on year, compared to a decrease of 6% in the previous quarter.
In the first half of 2020, Germany produced a total of around 17.5 million tons of crude steel, dropping by 15.7% from the same period a year earlier.
