Slight Recovery in Brass Billet Operating Rate This Week

Published: Jun 12, 2026 10:48

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[SMM Brass Billet Flash] During the week (6.05-6.11), the operating rate of the brass billet industry in China was 52.59%, up 0.74 percentage points MoM and up 0.58 percentage points YoY. Copper prices pulled back sharply during the week, which stimulated the moderate release of downstream rigid demand orders and boosted producers' enthusiasm for production, driving a slight rebound in the industry's operating rate.

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