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Hoa Phat posts highest crude steel output to date in January

The Hoa Phat Group, Vietnam’s leading steel producer, produced more than 670,000 tonnes of crude steel in January, its highest output to date and representing an annual growth of 67 percent.
Hoa Phat posts highest crude steel output to date in January ảnh 1Illustrative photo (Source: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - The Hoa Phat Group, Vietnam’s leading steelproducer, produced more than 670,000 tonnes of crude steel in January, its highestoutput to date and representing an annual growth of 67 percent.

The conglomerate said the fourth blast furnace at its Hoa Phat Dung Quatiron and steel production complex came into operation in the opening month of theyear, officially raising its total crude steel output to 8 million tonnes peryear.

This created favourable conditions for the firm to boost its manufacturing ofhot-rolled coil (HRC), for which it has set a target of 2.7 million tonnes thisyear.

Hoa Phat’s finished construction steel output, meanwhile, grew 6 percentannually to 186,000 tonnes, of which 37,000 tonnes was exported, up 38 percent year-on-year.

Nearly 140,000 tonnes of the group’s steel billet served domestic andinternational markets, an annual increase of 40 percent.

Hoa Phat’s steel market share in Vietnam currently stands at 32.5percent./.
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