Liaoning Province-based Chinese steelmaker Angang Steel Group (Ansteel) has announced that in January this year it produced 1.29 million mt of crude steel, up 16.5 percent year on year.

Meanwhile, Ansteel’s outputs of pig iron and finished steel in January amounted to 1.33 million mt and 1.21 million mt, up 18.6 percent and 20.3 percent respectively, both year on year.

In January, the group achieved an industrial value-added output of RMB 2 billion ($318 million), up five percent year on year.