Data showed Hubei-headquartered Wisco sold 3.89 million tons of steel products to customers within the province in the eight months to August, close to the four million tons it sold in the whole year 2008. 36 key steel-consuming customers in Hubei bought 756,100 tons of steel from the mill, of which 410,700 tons, or 54 percent, were bought by the auto, shipbuilding, bridge and railroad sectors. Wisco’s share in the province is expected to jump from 45 percent last year to 80 percent by the end of this year.