Chinese Aluminium Firms Ordered To Cut Carbon Dioxide Output By 18 Percent By 2025
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...
Aluminium imports into the People’s Republic of China rose by 27.1 percent on the year last month partly as a result of power supply issues plaguing aluminium smelters in the southwest of the country. April saw the Middle Kingdom bring in 222,851...
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...
An explosion at an aluminium smelter in Yunnan and energy supply cuts conspired to hold China’s aluminium output in November...
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 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 […]
Regulators in Yunnan province have warned aluminium producers powered by hydropower sources to keep average monthly outputs at August levels for the remainder of the year. A document from the Yunnan Development and Reform Commission obtained by Reuters ordered the cuts, which come on top of 1 million metric tons per annum of capacity that […]
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 […]
Blaming the rising cost of electricity in the province, Aluminum Corp of China (Chalco) announced on Wednesday that it is ending aluminium production at its smelter in Shandong. Chalco said in a statement issued to the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges that it is implementing “flexible production” at the Shandong Huayu smelter due to […]
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), […]
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