According to the State Statistics Committee of Kazakhstan, in the January to May period of the current year Kazakhstan produced 1.645 million tonnes of crude steel down by 20.5%YoY.

Production of rolled steel in Kazakhstan in the first five months of this year decreased by 7.7%YoY to 1.266 million tonnes while domestic production of iron ore in this period declined by 1.5% YoY to 20.574 million tonnes.

In the first five months of 2012, Kazakhstan saw its ferroalloy production decline by 0.3%YoY to 704,347 tonnes.

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