The average operating rate of copper foil enterprises stood at 79.18% in March, down 0.06 percentage point month on month and 13.24 percentage points year on year. The average operating rate of large, medium-scale and small enterprises stood at 82.60%, 82.62% and 61.96%, respectively.
The average operating rate of electronic circuit copper foil and lithium battery copper foil enterprises stood at 78.51% and 79.65% respectively, up 1.43 percentage points and down 1.1 percentage point MoM respectively. The average operating rate of copper foil producers is estimated at 77.59% in April, a decrease of 1.59 percentage points from the previous month. (Notes: SMM surveyed 22 producers with a combined capacity of 1.03 million mt/year.)
