Holiday suspension lowers tin output by 23% in Feb

SHANGHAI, Mar 7 (SMM) – China’s output of refined tin shrank 23.2% from January to stand at 9,560 mt in February as smelters suspended for the holidays, showed an SMM survey on March 7.

While smelters in Yunnan maintained production during the CNY break, smelters in Jiangxi closed. Some small smelters saw no output in the whole month.

Guangxi-based China Tin Group’s smelter in Laibin city began to undertake maintenance from January and is expected to return to normal production in the middle of March.

With smelters returning from holidays, output of refined tin in China is expected to rebound to about 12,000 mt in March.

Update: China Tin Group is expected to recover from maintenance "in the middle of March," instead of "at the end of March" in an earlier version of this report.