[Zn Ingot] Hualian Zinc and Indium to Build 100,000-tpy Zinc and 60-tpy Indium Smelting Project

Zinc ingots inventory in seven locations across China totalled 115,700 mt as of July 26, down 200 mt from last Friday (July 23) and fell 1200 mt on week.

The government of Southwest China’s Yunnan province has rolled out plans to promote major companies’ commercial stockpiling of key non-ferrous metals, including copper, aluminium, lead, zinc, tin, germanium and indium, as part of the effort to support the metals market impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and to boost the development of the real economy. 

Trading in the indium spot market in China was lacklustre during the week ended Friday June 7 as a declining market kept buyers and sellers on the sidelines

Trading in the indium spot market in China was lacklustre during the week ended Friday April 27 as both buyers and sellers were keen to delay deals until the VAT cut takes effect on May 1

As the China-US trade war worsened, stock prices of Chinese minor metal producers dropped for the most part on Wednesday April 18 at Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, SMM learned.

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Yunnan Wenshan Hualian Zinc and Indium Co. will put online 100,000-tpy zinc & 60-tpy indium smelting technical improvement project in the first half of 2018, according to cnmn.com.

Losses on imported zinc have been contracting since mid-to-late March, which are only 162 yuan per tonne for now, SMM understands.