Baotou Steel to put blast furnace under maintenance

China's automobile production and sales were 2.04 million units and 2.13 million units, down 8.7% and 5.5% month on month respectively, and falling 6.8% and 3.1% year on year.

A water inrush accident occurred at the Dahongcai iron ore mine in Daixian County, Shanxi Province on June 10, leaving 13 people trapped, according to preliminary estimate.

Operating rates of blast furnaces at steel mills fell 1.2 percentage points from a week ago and decreased 0.9 percentage point from a month ago to 85.7% as of May 27, SMM survey showed.

According to the SMM survey that covers 102 blast furnace steel mills, 42.2% of them are undertaking maintenance or have trimmed output (excluding mills that reduced output by adjusting rates of equipment utilisation and raw material ratios), down from a ratio of 50% last week, as some long steel mills have recovered production from maintenance.

The signing ceremony was held in Shanghai on Nov 6

A mill will suspend for about 10 days, which is expected to impact one-third of its supply for Sep

During that period, only one sintering machine at the northern plant of Tangshan Steel is allowed to maintain operation

The construction sites are unlikely to resume until the second half of Oct

The project can process up to 200,000 mt of copper scrap in a year

This will impact production by 10,000 mt