Turkey produced 35.76 million tonnes of crude steel in the 12 months of 2020, a 5.99% year-on-year increase from the 35.74 million tonnes produced in 2019,
the World Steel Association said.
Turkey consumed 29.4 million tonnes of finished steel in 2020, a 12.9% increase year on year, TÇÜD said in the week ended February 5.
Iron ore and scrap prices went down in January, but the decreases did not affect the markets in Europe and the United States negatively, TÇÜD said. But steel prices in the Turkish market fell...