Spanish steel industry scrap consumption decreased sequentially in May, despite crude steel output growing. Both indicators were weaker year-on-year, Kallanish learns.
Scrap consumption fell by 24,000 tonnes month-on-month in May to 823,000t. Compared with a year earlier, consumption dropped by 12%, according to Spanish steelmakers’ association Unesid. Five-month scrap consumption reached 4 million tonnes, compared to 4.25mt a year earlier, representing 87.3% of total crude steel production in January-May.
The local steel industry produced around 1.04mt of crude steel in May alone, 97,000t higher than April but 8% less on-year. Cumulative output reached 4.58mt, a fall from 5.54mt in January-May 2025, Unesid data show.
