Crude steel output in Italy declined by 12.2% year-on-year in 2020, despite a double-digit increase in December, Italian steel association Federacciai said .
The country’s total crude steel production amounted to 20.35 million tonnes in 2020, down from about 23.19 million tonnes in 2019.
Long steel output declined by 9.5%, to 11.16 million tonnes, down from 12.33 million tonnes in 2019, while flat steel production showed a 16.2% drop to 9.48 million tonnes in 2020, compared with 11.32 million tonnes in 2019.