Secondary lead smelter in Anhui to recover, expand production in Jul

SHANGHAI, Jun 25 (SMM) – A licensed smelter of secondary lead in Anhui province will conclude maintenance and resume production on July 2 as scheduled, an SMM survey found on Tuesday June 25. 

The secondary smelter also planned to double the output of its phase-two production lines into 1,200 mt/day, within 10 days after the recovery. Phase-two capacity stood at 600 mt/day before maintenance. 

Stable operation of the expanded phase-two capacity may close high-cost, phase-one production lines in the short term, SMM learned.