Poland increased steel production by 25.7% y/y in June

Polish steel companies significantly increased steel production in June 2025, with a 16.8% increase compared to the previous month and a 25.7% increase year-on-year – to 749,000 tons. Thus, the country ranks 20th in the WorldSteel global ranking of steel producers.

In January-June, Polish metallurgists produced 3.87 million tons of steel, which is 7.4% more than in the same period of 2024. The recovery of Poland’s metallurgical complex is facilitated by the restart of an important enterprise, Huta Częstochowa. Since February 3, the plant has been operating at full capacity after more than a year of downtime.

At the same time, ArcelorMittal Poland, the country’s largest steel producer, announced a temporary shutdown of blast furnace No. 3 at its plant in Dąbrowa Górnicza. The manufacturer claims to have lost profitability due to excess imports and high energy prices and CO2 emissions.

Polish metalworkers’ unions have announced their intention to intensify protests in the fall due to the lack of real support for the industry from the government. Although the Ministry of Industry has set up a working group and presented an “Action Plan for the Sustainable Development of the Steel Industry,” activists consider the document empty and ineffective. Previous promises of state aid for ArcelorMittal or Węglokoks group companies have not been backed up with specific funding.

Trade unions are demanding a single electricity rate of €60 per MWh for all energy-intensive industries in the EU, reform of the compensation system, protection of the domestic market from steel imports from countries without a “green course,” and reform of the scrap metal trade.

Overall, EU steel companies reduced steel production by 8.2% year-on-year in June 2025 to 10.4 million tons, and by 3.3% year-on-year in January-June to 65.4 million tons.

In 2024, Poland increased steel production by 10.1% compared to 2023, from 6.4 million tons to 7.1 million tons. The country ranked 25th in the global ranking of steel-producing countries (71) by World Steel.

The steel industry has moved away from the downward trend that had been ongoing since 2022, in particular:

• 2020 – 7.86 million tons;
• 2021 – 8.45 million tons;
• 2022 – 7.41 million tons;
• 2023 – 6.43 million tons.

There are six metallurgical enterprises in Poland, including ArcelorMittal Warszawa (capacity of 0.75 million tons of steel per year), Celsa Huta Ostrowiec (0.9 million tons/year), Huta Czestochowa (0.84 million tons/year), CMC Zawiercie (1.7 million tons/year), ArcelorMittal Dąbrowa Górnicza (5 million tons/year), and Ferrostal Labedy Gliwice (0.5 million tons/year).