The International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) has published figures for the first three months of 2016, showing that stainless steel melt shop production increased by 0.4%, to 10.3 million metric tons in the regions including the Americas; Western Europe/Africa; Central/Easter Europe and Asia (without China). In the America, the production of stainless steel increased by 6.7% compared to the same time period in 2015. Year-on-year however, stainless steel melt shop production has decreased in the Americas by 16.4%.