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Market information
World Steel Tube Production – Forecast
In 2019 the World Steel Tube Production reaches 171 million tons, an increase of 20.1 %. The pro- duction of seamless tubes decreased 1.6 % to 43 Mio to, significant is the increase in India with 20 %. Germany reached with a loss of -14.6 %
a negative result in the seamless tubes market, and a minus of 26.5 % in total productions. Chinese steel tube producers achieved a production of 96 million metric tons, a plus of 1.6 %, the USA with a production of 11.8 million tons an decrease of 0.2 %.
180.000
135.000
90.000
45.000
0
7,5
0,0 -7,5 -15,0 -22,5 -30,0
Region/ country
EU Japan India Other
Germany
EU USA
Japan
GUS India
China
Other
World
Germany 1,086 1,271 -14.6
2019
2018
8,376 8,163 2.6
Total in Tto.
seamless tubes
2019 2018 in % 3,556 3,972 -10.5
1,330 1,372 -3.1 600 500 20.0 2,872 3,215 -10.7
2019 2018 in %
12,860 13,673 -5.9 5,767 6,162 -6.4 4,200 4,100 2.4
27,204 27,717 -1.9 figures include estimations
welded tubes <406
welded tubes >406
391 936 -58.2
welded tubes
TOTAL
2019 2018 in%
2019 2018 in %
2019 2018 in %
828 878 -5.7
1,219 1,814 -32.8
2,305 3,085 -25.3
928 1,538 -39.7
9,304 9,701 -4.1
USA 2,219 2,423 -8.4
7,892 8,135 -3.0
1,762 1,334 32.1
9,654 9,469 2.0
11,873 11,892 -0.2
3,300 3,457 -4,5
1,137 1,333 -14.7
4,437 4,790 -7.4
GUS 4,470 4,763 -6.2
6,248 5,976 4.6
1,600 1,600 0.0
3,038 2,648 14.7
9,286 8,624 7.7
13,756 13,387 2.8
2,000 2,000 0.0
3,600 3,600 0.0
China 28,000 27,500 1.8
60,000 59,000 1.7
8,000 8,000 0.0
68,000 67,000 1.5
96,000 94,500 1.6
19,659 18,845 4.3
4,673 4,554 2.6
4,332 24,502 -0.7
World 43,047 43,745 -1.6
Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahlrohre e.V.
107,075 106,221 0.8
21,538 21,465 0,.3
128,613 127,686 0.7
171,660 171,431 0.1
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