[Ferro-Alloys.com] 

  According to the statistics of stainless steel branch of China Special Steel Enterprises Association, the statistics of production, import and export, and apparent consumption of stainless steel crude steel in 2020 are as follows:

  1、 The output of stainless steel crude steel was 30.139 million tons, with a year-on-year increase of 73.94 million tons or 2.51%.

  Among them: Cr Ni steel (300 Series) 14.3796 million tons, an increase of 8874 million tons (6.58%), the proportion increased by 1.82%, accounting for 47.71%; Cr steel (400 Series) was 5.925 million tons, with a year-on-year increase of 422400 tons, an increase of 7.68%, and the proportion increased by 0.94 percentage points, accounting for 19.66%; Cr Mn steel (200 Series) was 9.6432 million tons, with a year-on-year decrease of 580900 tons, a decrease of 5.68%, and the share decreased by 2.78 percentage points, accounting for 32.00%; the output of duplex stainless steel was 191432 tons, with a year-on-year increase of 10489 tons, an increase of 5.8%.

  2、 Import and export

  The import was 1.805 million tons, with a year-on-year increase of 686200 tons, an increase of 61.33%, of which 863900 tons of billets were imported, with a year-on-year increase of 468.15%. Exports were 3.4169 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 255400 tons or 6.95%.

  3、 Apparent consumption

  In 2020, the apparent consumption of stainless steel in China will be 25.6079 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 1.5546 million tons (6.46%).

• [Editor:Catherine Ren]