translate English to French: Thursday, March 1, 2001 Steel primary forms Week ending February 24, 2001 (preliminary) Steel primary forms production for the week ending February 24 totalled 274 608 metric tonnes, up 2.3% from 268 441 tonnes a week earlier but down 17.2% from 331 431 tonnes in the same week of 2000.
Thursday, March 1, 2001 Particleboard, oriented strandboard and fibreboard December 2000 Oriented strandboard production in December totalled 667 001 cubic metres, up 6.5% from 626 211 cubic metres in December 1999. Particleboard production reached 168 817 cubic metres, a decrease of 14.5% from 197 556 cubic metres in December 1999.