Henan town shuts secondary aluminium producers for environmental upgrading

SHANGHAI, Nov 21 (SMM) – Dazhou town in Henan province required all secondary aluminium producers to suspend operation to install environmental equipment, SMM learned on Tuesday November 20.

There are about 50 secondary aluminium producers in the town and most produce nonstandard products with capacity below 2,000 mt/year.

The current installation progress suggests that plants can resume output as early as December.

This round of output suspension is likely to have minimal impact on the overall secondary aluminium market amid current quiet trading liquidity and as most local plants have adequate stocks of finished goods.