About steel
Steel is the world’s most important engineering and construction material. It is used in every aspect of our lives; in cars and construction products, refrigerators and washing machines, cargo ships and surgical scalpels. It can be recycled over and over again without loss of property.
Check out our publication World Steel in Figures for more information.
World crude steel production reached 1 849.7 Mt (million tonnes) for the year 2023. Our press releases contain the most up to date recent information relating to steel production.
For more information, check out our publication World Steel in Figures issued each year in June or refer to our Steel Data Viewer.
Smart manufacturing does not just mean having a smart factory. It is a significant transformation in the way we source raw materials, manufacture, and market our products through horizontal and vertical supply chain integration. It is a profoundly customer-focused concept.
This change is not a one-step process as there are obvious challenges of trust and data security to overcome between diverse parties in the supply chain. There are a number of examples of early adopters within the steel industry; especially in vertical integration within business segments where building blocks of smart factories are being put together.worldsteel updates the list of steel-producing countries in the annual World Steel in Figures publication which is issued in early June.
Every year in December worldsteel produces country steel production statistics available via the Steel Data Viewer.
worldsteel updates the list of major steel-producing companies in the annual World Steel in Figures publication.
A British inventor, Henry Bessemer, is generally credited with the invention of the first technique to mass produce steel in the mid 1850s. Steel is still produced using technology based on the Bessemer Process of blowing air through molten pig iron to oxidise the material and separate impurities. For more information, check out the worldsteel online publication The Steel Story.