Notice: Chinese New Year holiday schedule

SMM offices will close from Feb 4-10

Report: Tesla begins construction on factory in Shanghai 

The electric carmaker aims to produce 250,000 pure electric cars per year in the first phase

Guizhou Galuminium to expand alumna capacity in Q4

This will expand its alumina capacity to 800,000 mt

Medium-sized, small processors of aluminium strip, plate to suspend for CNY

Large-sized processors with capacity above 100,000 mt have yet to announce maintenance or break schedule for CNY

Environmental upgrade affects alumina capacity at Shanxi Huaxing 

Some 800,000 mt of alumina capacity was affected

Construction starts on 5-billion-yuan energy storage project in Nantong

Project is designed with an annual capacity of 8GWh

Henan to ban new steel, aluminium capacity through end-2020

The government also urged the merger of local steel plants into two integrated companies

Maintenance at Chinalco Guangxi to affect alumina output

This will affect total production of alumina by 20,000 mt

Songtong’s carbon anode project to complete construction in Jan

This is the 1st stage of a 900,000 mt/year project that was launched by Songtong Development and Yunnan Aluminium

Guangxi Qiangqiang Carbon commissions prebaked anode project

The project will provide raw materials for new aluminium capacity in Guangxi province