Secondary lead smelters operating rates expanded to 40%

SHANGHAI, Apr 3 (SMM) – Operating rates across licensed smelters of secondary lead in Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan and Guizhou continued to recover, rising by 6.9 percentage points from the prior week to 40.4% in the week ended April 3, showed an SMM survey. 

The average operating rate in Anhui expanded 17.2 percentage points on the week to 30.9%, as Anhui Huabo hiked its daily production to over 1,000 mt.

Guizhou Yongxin reopened more capacity and kept running two production lines since March 29. This lifted the operating rate in Guizhou to 65.1%, up 7 percentage points on the week.

The rates in Jiangsu and Henan remained unchanged from a week ago at 33.3% and 42.7%, respectively.