International Iron and Steel Institute have released the production figures for direct reduced iron for the month of July 2007. The global production of DRI in June 2007 was 4.200 million tonne almost flat YoY.
Global DRI production during January to June 2007 amounted to 30.702 million up by 7.7% YoY. India’s production in this period amounted to 9.970 million tonnes up by 17.5% YoY, accounting for 32.4% of total global DRI production.
The production update is as under
| | July'06 | July'07 | Change | J-J'06 | J-J'07 | Change |
| Total | 4201 | 4200 | 0.0% | 28513 | 30702 | 7.7% |
| India | 1270 | 1470 | 15.7% | 8487 | 9970 | 17.5% |
| Venezuela | 753 | 618 | -17.9% | 4976 | 4826 | -3.0% |
| Iran | 561 | 621 | 10.7% | 3966 | 4228 | 6.6% |
| Mexico | 537 | 250 | -53.4% | 3471 | 3405 | -1.9% |
| Saudi Arabia | 318 | 227 | -28.6% | 2106 | 2101 | -0.2% |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 237 | 180 | -24.1% | 1294 | 1082 | -16.4% |
| South Africa | 133 | 139 | 4.5% | 1060 | 1020 | -3.8% |
| Libya | 76 | 135 | 77.6% | 993 | 1012 | 1.9% |
| Argentina | 149 | 82 | -45.0% | 1159 | 949 | -18.1% |
| Qatar | 76 | 80 | 5.3% | 510 | 540 | 5.9% |
| Canada | 52 | 92 | 76.9% | 202 | 501 | 148.0% |
| Brazil | 31 | 24 | -22.6% | 242 | 194 | -19.8% |
| Peru | 7 | 7 | 0.0% | 46 | 52 | 13.0% |
In 000 tonnes
Source – IISI