Posted on 10 Jun 2016
Iron and steel product manufacturing in Vietnam posted stable growth over the first five months of 2016 with an output of more than 5.8 million tonnes, rising by nearly one million tonnes or 19.3 per cent year on year, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.
The expansion is about 2.6 times faster than the growth of the general industrial production index during the reviewed period, data from the General Statistics Office show.
It is also an auspicious start for the industry to achieve the record productivity of 14.9 million tonnes this year, compared to about 10.92 million tonnes in 2011 and 12.5 million tonnes in 2015.
