随着西方经济增长,国际钢材市场的需求持续增长,据国际钢铁协会预计,1994年西方发达国家钢材消费量将较1993年增2.1％,1995年还将继续增长。世界钢产量虽也可能随之有所回升,但预计一时还难以赶上需求的增长,促使钢铁设备能力过剩的局面有所缓解。经过1994年的复修工作,1995年西方部分钢厂的闲置设备投入运行。 With the growth of the western economy, the demand of the international steel market continues to grow. According to the International Iron and Steel Institute, the steel consumption of the developed western countries will increase by 2.1% in 1994 compared with 1993 and will continue to grow in 1995. Although the world steel output may also rise somewhat later, it is expected that it will be hard to keep up with the growth of demand for some time, which will ease the excess capacity of steel equipment. After the rehabilitation work in 1994, the idle equipment of some western steel mills was put into operation in 1995.