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IRON & STEEL SECTOR IN TURKEY
Turkish steel industry has been showing a stable growth trend
since the year 2001. Turkey’s crude steel production capacity reached around
34.1 million tons in 2008 up by 72 % from 19.8 million tons in 2000. Electric
furnace based steel production of Turkey grew by 91 % from 13.6 million tons to
26.1 million tons and BOF based production by 30 % to 8 million tons during the
same period.
Turkey’s total crude steel production increased from 14.3
million tons in 2000 to 26.8 million tons in 2008, up by 87 %. In this period,
Turkey showed the best performance in the world after China. Furthermore, the
growth performance of the Turkish steel industry was around two times higher
than the general Turkish economy. Because of the high performance of the Turkish
steel industry, Turkey moved up to the 11th place in world’s largest steel
producing countries and to 3rd in Europe
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