Update: Short circuit suspends East Hope’s aluminium smelter in Inner Mongolia

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SHANGHAI, Sep 24 (SMM) – East Hope’s primary aluminium smelter in Guyang county of north China’s Inner Mongolia had to suspend after a short circuit occurred at electrolytic cells early in the morning of Tuesday September 24, SMM learned.

The smelter, coming online in the first half of this year, had 250,000 mt of primary aluminium capacity in operation on an annualised basis, and some capacity under construction.