The International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) has released figures for the first half year of 2022 showing that stainless steel melt shop production decreased by 3.5% year-on-year to 29.0 million metric tons. In Europe and the US, production decreased by 5.2%, and 14.7% respectively. China registered a decreased growth of 5.3%. Other Asian countries and other parts of the world combined registered a increase of 3.1% and 3.3% in steel production.
