Power Crunch To Tighten Further For China’s Aluminium Smelters As Winter Power Cuts Approach
Winter is coming to the People’s Republic of China, and along with it is the prospect of yet more power...
An explosion at an aluminium smelter in Yunnan and energy supply cuts conspired to hold China’s aluminium output in November slightly below the prior month’s total. Such was the story told by production numbers released by Beijing last week. Per production numbers,...
Winter is coming to the People’s Republic of China, and along with it is the prospect of yet more power...
Regulators in Yunnan province have warned aluminium producers powered by hydropower sources to keep average monthly outputs at August levels...
A jump in aluminium supply in Inner Mongolia helped push the People’s Republic of China’s aluminium production level to a...
Experts say weak demand and trans-Pacific trade tensions are the culprits for the People’s Republic of China’s first net production drop in aluminium in a decade over the course of 2019. According to numbers published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) yesterday, China’s aluminium smelters combined to produce 35.04 million metric tons of aluminium […]
The Aluminum Association voiced its opposition late last week to exclusion requests under Section 301 for aluminium can sheet originating from the People’s Republic of China, reasoning that such requests will work against the Middle Kingdom’s oversupply problems. In its weekly report, the Association followed up a Letter of Objection to the Office of U.S. […]
Domestic demand in the People’s Republic of China has suffered of late thanks to continuing blows to consumer confidence due to the ongoing trade tensions between the Middle Kingdom and the United States. Such was the message conveyed by the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association late last week. On Thursday, CNIA said that even a […]
Monstrous subsidies from Beijing is contributing to the continued bloat of aluminium production in the People’s Republic of China according to Alcoa Corporation’s CEO Roy Harvey, and he’s working to muster support from government officials around the globe to help put a stop to it. Noting that state support for Chinese aluminium capacity is “on […]
Aluminium output by smelters in the People’s Republic of China was at near-record highs again last month according to numbers just released by National Bureau of Statistics, as smelters reopened a significant portion of the capacity that was closed at this time last year. Per the released numbers, China’s total output in July rose 12 […]
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