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Steel in figures:
Steel in figures:
Salzgitter AG
Salzgitter steelworks site
The size of approximately 980 football pitches
Surface area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 km2
Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 km Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.5 km Total length of road network . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 km Total length of rail network . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 km Level crossings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Production quantities
The steel industry
World steel consumption
Annual per capita consumption SouthKorea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Examples
Steel-producing countries
Annual production 2018
1,130.2 kg Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 782.1 kg Czech Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634.7 kg Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499.5 kg China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492.7 kg Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492.6 kg Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469.6 kg
2.8 million
is the number of pipes manufac- tured by EUROPIPE since the company was established in 1991
China . . . . . . India . . . . . . Japan . . . . . . USA . . . . . . . Russia . . . . . South Korea Germany . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
928.3 million tons 106.5 million tons 104.3 million tons . . 86.7 million tons . . 71.7 million tons . . 72.5 million tons . . 42.4 million tons
Joined together they would cover a distance of
37,400 km
1,808,800,000 tons
of steel (1 .8 billion) were produced worldwide in 2018 . This is an increase of 4 .6 % over the previous year
2,500,000
jobs throughout Europe depend directly or indirectly on the steel industry . The worldwide figure even stands at 42 million
7,000,000 tons*
of steel was produced by Salzgitter AG in 2017 – including 5 .9 million tons of oxygen steel and 1 .1 million tons of electric steel (* incl . HKM)
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Sources: World Steel Association, Eurofer, Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl, Salzgitter AG
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