Operating rate of BFs was 89.45% on March 20, up 0.3 percentage points WoW, SMM survey showed. According to SMM's current tracking, there will be no scheduled maintenance and planned restart of 2 BFs. In addition, a rally in prices may bring earlier restart of BFs from maintenance. The operating rates of BFs may move up again this week.

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