Jiujiang Pinggang put one blast furnace in maintenance for 38 days

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced that in 2021, China’s 145 million mt of steel production capacity completed the ultra-low emission transformation of the whole process.

The operating rates across 34 EAF mills of construction steel stood at 54.58% as of December 28, a gain of 0.68 percentage point from the previous week.

This is a roundup of news in the steel industry for last week.

The General Office of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice on September 30, requiring staggered production of the steel industry in the heating season of 2021-2022 in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas (the “Notice”).

This is an overview of China’s imports and exports of metals in September.

SMM data showed that China's refined zinc output stood at 508,900 mt in August, down 1.22% on the month and 0.04% on the year. Output from January to August was 4.04 million mt, a year-on-year increase of 4.47%. Alloy output at domestic refined zinc smelters in SMM’s survey sample registered 75,500 mt in August, up 80 mt on the month.

China's import volume of unwrought copper and copper semis in August were 393,900 mt, a year-on-year decrease of 41.07%, and a month-on-month decrease of 7.2%. The imports from January to August were 3.61 million mt, a year-on-year decrease of 15.4%.

The steel industry plays an important role in leading global low-carbon development and addressing climate change under the carbon neutrality target. And as traditional processes are reaching their carbon reduction limits, the steel industry must achieve breakthrough technologies in order to realise this target. In the future, hydrogen metallurgy will become the new windfall for the steel industry. This article will giver an overview of the key cooperation projects between international mines and China steel companies in the field of low carbon technology.

This is a roundup of news in the steel industry chain in China last week.

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