Guangdong Aluminium Smelters Send Workers On Spring Festival Holiday Early Due To Tepid Demand
Several aluminium smelters in Guangdong, China are closing down earlier than usual for the Spring Festival holiday this year, while...
Numbers released this week by Beijing show that the People’s Republic of China’s aluminium production rose to a new record high last year as imports of primary aluminium fell off steeply from the prior year’s total. In 2022, aluminium smelters in China...
Several aluminium smelters in Guangdong, China are closing down earlier than usual for the Spring Festival holiday this year, while...
Imports of aluminium into the People’s Republic of China fell by 35.7 percent on the year in November, while its...
Data from the People’s Republic of China shows that the country’s output of aluminium is poised to continue at a...
Production of primary aluminium in the People’s Republic of China was off by 0.9 percent on the month in June, but it was better by 3.2 percent on the year, likely due to an increase in aluminium prices over last year. According to data released by Antaike last week, Chinese producers churned out 3.39 million […]
Last week the Chinese government tasked state-owned enterprises to cut their energy consumption per CN¥10,000 (US$1,570) by 15 percent and their carbon dioxide output by 18 percent by 2025. The move is part of a wider push to drive energy-intensive industries including aluminium and steel to reach the energy-efficiency standards Beijing set out earlier in […]
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, the Middle Kingdom produced 3.10 million metric tons of aluminium last month, just […]
Cutbacks on power supplies in the People’s Republic of China so far this year have translated in a cut of 7 percent of the country’s overall aluminium capacity. Such was the conclusion of a Wood Mackenzie report released yesterday. According to the report, the cuts are a result of Beijing’s restructuring of its power infrastructure […]
Winter is coming to the People’s Republic of China, and along with it is the prospect of yet more power cuts for the country’s aluminium and other metals operations. Experts who spoke with Reuters this week said that a summer with low supplies of coal has already threatened dire circumstances for power generation in the […]
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Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...