noun
crude steel
Industrial term for steel in a basic produced form, especially as counted in statistics such as 粗鋼生産量.
日本の粗鋼生産量は前年を下回った。
Japan's crude steel production fell below the previous year's level.
この工場では年間数百万トンの粗鋼を生産している。
This plant produces several million tons of crude steel a year.
Written with 粗, suggesting something coarse or unrefined, and 鋼, 'steel'; the compound is conventionally used as an industrial term for crude steel.