China’s Power Cuts Reduce Country’s Total Aluminium Capacity By 7 Percent In 2021
Cutbacks on power supplies in the People’s Republic of China so far this year have translated in a cut of...
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,...
Cutbacks on power supplies in the People’s Republic of China so far this year have translated in a cut of...
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...
Up to half a million metric tons per annum of aluminium smelting capacity in Guangxi may be temporarily shuttered after the local power provider warned aluminium smelters in the region that it would soon begin rationing electricity to those plants. Guangxi Power Grid Corp said on Saturday that local aluminium smelters would be tasked with […]
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. […]
Recognizing the damage excess capacity continues to wreak upon the country’s aluminium market, the People’s Republic of China’s top smelters agreed on Friday to ax a minimum of 800 thousand metric tons per annum of smelting capacity in the next several months. An official from the meeting’s host, the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA), […]
With ever-sagging domestic prices for the metal as a backdrop, Chinese state-owned smelter Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) announced on Friday that it is cutting production at certain northern smelters. In an announcement posted to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Chalco declared that it would place about 470,000 metric tons per annum of capacity on […]
The most prolific aluminium producer on Earth will be compelled to cut over half a million metric tons per annum of production capacity over the winter months as part of the state’s effort at fighting smog production. According to documents obtained by Reuters, the Shandong province’s city of Binzhou has ordered the closure of five […]
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