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1. China ......................................................................................................803.8
2. Japan ......................................................................................................105.2
3. India......................................................................................................... 89.4
4. USA............................................................................................................78.8
5. Russia....................................................................................................... 70.9
6. South Korea ...........................................................................................69.7
7. Germany..................................................................................................42.7
8. Brazil .........................................................................................................33.3
9. Turkey.......................................................................................................31.5
10. Ukraine..................................................................................................23.0
The worldsteel list of the top ten steel-producing companies
includes members and non-members of the Brussels-based
organisation. Tonnages for 2015 for all types of steel including
stainless (in millions of metric tons [MT]):
1. ArcelorMittal (Luxembourg) .......................................................97.136
2. Hesteel Group (China)...................................................................47.745
3. Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp (Japanese) ........46.374
4. POSCO (South Korea) ....................................................................41.975
5. Baosteel Group (China).................................................................34.938
6. Shagang Group (China) ................................................................34.214
7. Ansteel Group (China)...................................................................32.502
8. JFE Steel Corp (Japan) ...................................................................29.825
9. Shougang Group (China) .............................................................28.553
10. Tata Steel Group (India)..............................................................26.314
worldsteel also provided a breakdown of the top ten steel
consumers in 2015 on the basis of “apparent steel use per
capita,” derived from deliveries of steel into the various countries’
marketplaces. (Totals here are in pounds.)
1. South Korea .....................................................................................2,455.0
2. Taiwan ................................................................................................1,654.7
3. Czech Republic ...............................................................................1,383.2
4. Japan ..................................................................................................1,096.4
5. China ..................................................................................................1,077.2
6. Germany............................................................................................1,067.0
7. Turkey.....................................................................................................963.0
8. Austria....................................................................................................922.1
9. Canada...................................................................................................892.0
10. Italy.......................................................................................................883.0
Automotive
Its stealth Autopilot enables Tesla to
gather more autonomous driving data –
but rival Google has some advantages
Crowdsourcing, as de ned by Merriam-Webster, is the process
of obtaining needed services, ideas or content by soliciting
contributions from a large group of people. This spring, Tesla
Motors Inc put its own stamp on the de nition. In the course of
describing the performance of its Autopilot feature, an o cial
of the Palo Alto, California-based maker of premium electric
cars disclosed that that such “contributions” may not always be
voluntary; or even perceptible to the contributor. (“Tesla Reveals
Its Crowdsourced Autopilot Data,” 26th May)
As reported by Philip E Ross in IEEE Spectrum, Sterling Anderson,
director of the Autopilot programme, said that Tesla installed the
hardware of the feature in cars about a year before uploading
the enabling software in October 2015. Speaking on 26th May
at a conference in San Francisco sponsored by MIT Technology