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Market information
World Steel Tube Production – Forecast
In 2018 the World Steel Tube Production reaches 172.6 million tons, an increase of 2.6%. The pro- duction of seamless tubes increased 3.9% to 43.5 Mio tons, signi cant is the increase in India with 31.6%. Germany reached with an increase of 4.8%
a positive result in the seamless tubes market, but a minus of 19.7% in large diameter tubes. Chinese steel tube producers achieved a production of 94.5 million metric tons, a plus of 2.7 %, the USA with a production of 11.8 million tons a plus of 13.1%.
2018
2017
Total in Tto.
180.000
135.000
90.000
45.000
0
14 10,5 7 3,5 0 -3,5 -7
Region/ country
Germany
EU
USA
Japan GUS
India
China
Other
World
TOTAL
seamless tubes
welded tubes <406
welded tubes >406
welded tubes
2018 2017 in% 2018 2017 in% 2018 2017 in% 2018 2017 in% 2018 2017 in%
Germany 1,271 1,213 4.8 878 909 -3.4 936 1,165 -19.7 1,814 2,074 -12.5 3,085 3,287 -6.1
EU
USA
Japan
GUS
India
China
Other
World
3,959 3,950 0.2 8,373 8,357 0.2 1,545 1,599 -3.4 9,918 9,956 -0.4 13,877 13,906 -0.2
2,423 2,068 17.2 8,135 7,319 11.1 1,334 1,123 18.8 9,469 8,442 12.2 11,892 10,510 13.1
1,372 1,294 6.0 3,457 3,394 1.9 1,333 1,438 -7.3 4,790 4,832 -0.9 6,162 6,126 0.6
4,774 4,557 4.8 5,976 6,035 -1.0 2,648 2,665 -0.6 8,624 8,700 -0.9 13,398 13,257 1.1
500 380 31.6 1,600 1,600 0.0 2,000 2,000 0.0 3,600 3,600 0.0 4,100 3,980 3.0
27,500 27,000 1.9 59,000 55,600 6.1 8,000 9,400 -14.9 67,000 65,000 3.1 94,500 92,000 2.7
2,987 2,646 12.9 21,148 18,845 12.2 4,633 4,554 1.7 25,781 25,845 -0.2 28,768 28,491 1.0
43,515 41,895 3.9 107,689 103,466 4.1 21,493 22,909 -6.2
129,182 126,375
2.2 172,697 168,270 2.6
Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahlrohre e.V.
gures include estimations
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