Tangshan to implement level II anti-smog measures Mar 16-20

Published: Mar 18, 2019 11:10 (GMT+8)

Save

Category-A steel mills, located outside urban areas, are required to cut capacity of sintering machines by at least 40%

SHANGHAI, Mar 18 (SMM) – China’s top steelmaking city, Tangshan of Hebei province, required heavy industries to implement level II anti-smog measures from CST 18:00 March 16 to CST 12:00 March 20, due to poor pollutant diffusion conditions.

Under the smog alert, category A steel mills that are located outside urban areas are required to cut capacity of sintering machines by at least 40%. Category A mills located in the urban area are required to halve sintering capacity. Category B steel mills are subject to cuts of at least 60%.

Category C mills are required to cut at least 70% of sintering capacity, while category D mills will have to suspend sintering.

Heavy industries in Tangshan face production curbs under the air pollution control plan for March. They are required to implement stricter restrictions if the curbs under air pollution control plan differ from those under a level II smog-alert .

Tangshan Air pollution

Data Source Statement: Except for publicly available information, all other data are processed by SMM based on publicly available information, market communication, and relying on SMM's internal database model. They are for reference only and do not constitute decision-making recommendations.

For any inquiries or for more information, please contact: lemonzhao@smm.cn

For more information on how to access our research reports, please contact:service.en@smm.cn

Related News

19 mins ago

Silver futures fall under pressure as market holiday sentiment intensifies ahead of the National Day holiday [SMM Daily Review]

19 mins ago

21 mins ago

Platinum futures continue to decline, spot market trading remains sluggish [SMM Daily Review]

21 mins ago

Sep 25, 2026 16:02 (GMT+8)

Tanzania’s Imwelo selects processing route after gold recovery rises to 84.5%

[SMM Gold Flash] Lake Victoria Gold reported new metallurgical testwork for weathered ore at Area C of its fully permitted Imwelo Gold Project in Tanzania. Attrition scrubbing followed by desliming increased 24-hour gold extraction from 49.99% to 84.54% in agitated-leach testing. Bottle-roll recovery reached 88.15% after pretreatment, while gravity-recoverable gold also increased. The work was conducted by Nesch Mintech Tanzania in Mwanza. The company has identified attrition scrubbing and desliming as the preferred pretreatment route for further optimisation of the clay-rich near-surface material. Lake Victoria Gold says the results complement earlier work on deeper material, where recoveries of approximately 96–97% were reported. Importantly, the reported recoveries relate to tested pretreated fractions and do not yet represent overall whole-ore plant recovery; further mass-balance and optimisation work is planned.

Sep 25, 2026 16:02 (GMT+8)