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.
Japan produces about 90 million tons of crude steel annually.
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.
This month's crude steel production increased 5% year-on-year.
鉄鋼 broadly covers the iron-and-steel industry or its products, whereas 粗鋼 names only the crude, semi-finished steel stage of production.
銑鉄 is pig iron, an intermediate iron product made before steelmaking, while 粗鋼 is the crude steel produced afterward from processes like the converter.
Written with 粗, suggesting something coarse or unrefined, and 鋼, 'steel'; the compound is conventionally used as an industrial term for crude steel.