evraz plc said on thursday that total steelproduct sales in the thirdquarter fell compared with the prior threemonth period the londonbased steelmaking and mining company which mainly operates in russia said this was mostly due to a slowdown in the russian construction products market as well as lower sales of railway and semifinished products because of logistics restrictions total sales of steel product fell 82 over the quarter to 3 million tons evraz said evraz said thirdquarter crude steel production was 34 million tons flat on the second quarter the company said this was mainly due to larger production volumes at evraz north america crude steel production in the first nine months of the year was flat at 102 million tons vanadium sales fell 12 quarter on quarter to 29 million tons the company said evraz said this was mostly due to reduced global demand from the automotive sector as well as the semiconductor shortage and slowdowns in russias oil gas and rail sectors