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Italy is Europe's third largest producer of steel, making 26.5Mt in 2001, but output for 2002 is expected to drop by nearly one million tonnes, largely due to a decrease in flat steel production.
As hosts this year of the Annual Conference of the International Iron and Steel Institute, Federacciai, the Italian iron and steel federation, ably welcomed and entertained 450 delegates, plus many of their partners, for three days in Rome. Federacciai member companies operate on 22 sites, four of which are integrated and the remainder are electric arc steelmakers - mainly concentrated in the north of the country (Fig 1). Italy is Europe's third largest producer of steel (after Russia and Germany), making 26.54Mt in 2001. EAF producers account for 62% of production, making 16.545Mt in 2001, largely in scrap charged furnaces. Oxygen steelmaking accounted for 10.009Mt, which was produced at four locations, Genoa and Trieste in the north of the country, Piombino on the mid west coast and Taranto - Europe's largest single plant - in the far south....