Steel industry in Mexico
According to La Cámara Nacional el Hierro y el Acero (Canacero) Mexico ranked 15th as a world producer of crude steel in 2021 and generated 672,000 direct and indirect jobs, with an investment of $14,461 mdd in the last 10 years, that is, from 2012 to 2021. A total of 18.5 million tons of crude steel were produced in 2021, a figure that represented a reduction of -8.3% compared to the record figure achieved in 2018. The consumption of finished steel products per capita was 203 kg per year, while the average global consumption was 233 kg per year. Among the main steel producers published by the