According to the data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global direct reduced iron (DRI) production in the 14 countries accounting for approximately 87 percent of total world DRI production in 2013 amounted to 4.49 million metric tons in September this year, decreasing by 4.8 percent year on year and falling by 0.9 percent month on month.
Meanwhile, world DRI output came to 39.55 million metric tons in the January-September period of this year, decreasing by 11.5 percent compared to the corresponding period of 2015.
The worldsteel data show that Iran was the largest DRI producer among the countries surveyed in September this year. Iran’s DRI output was 1.43 million metric tons in the given month. Iran was followed by India, Mexico and Saudi Arabia in September, with estimated outputs of 1.19 million mt, 470,000 mt and 400,000 mt respectively.