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Operating Rate at China Silicon Plants Falls in April, SMM Surveys

May 5, 2017 15:50

Source:SMM

The average operating rate at Chinese silicon metal plants fell to 28.23% in April, down 1.75 percentage points from March and 4.27 percentage points on a yearly basis.

SHANGHAI, May 5 (SMM) - The average operating rate at Chinese silicon metal plants fell to 28.23% in April, down 1.75 percentage points from March and 4.27 percentage points on a yearly basis, according to an SMM survey of 117 domestic silicon metal plants.

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These manufactures, whose total capacities reach 3.5288 million tonnes per annum, produced some 83,000 tonnes of output in April.

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