China’s crude steel production increased 5% year on year to 74.8 million mt in February, according to calculations by the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) based on a China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) production estimate.

China’s production of primary aluminium in the January-to-February period rose 2.4% year on year to 5.85 million mt, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released on Monday. NBS data also showed that China's production of 10 nonferrous metals, including copper, aluminium, lead, zinc and nickel, totaled 9.35 million mt in the first two months of 2020, up 2.2% from the same period last year.

SMM data showed that China produced 683,100 mt of copper cathode last month, down 5.9% from January and 5.07% from February 2019.

Last year, Baowu generated 556.6 billion yuan in revenue and saw profits grow 690,000 million yuan from 2018 to 34.52 billion yuan, according to the company’s report.

China’s crude steel production increased 7.2% year on year to 84.3 million mt in January, barely changed from December

China produced 2.09 million mt of stainless steel in January, down 13.06% from a month ago but up 4.8% from a year ago

SMM estimates a further decline of nearly 20,000 mt in primary lead output in China this month

Daily crude steel output across CISA key mills averaged 1.97 million mt in the second 10 days of January

Output of sintered NdFeB grew 9.7% to 170,000 mt in 2019

China’s zinc output for the full 2019 grew 9.2% year on year to 6.24 million mt, compared to a 3.2% decline in 2018.