Operating rates across licensed smelters of secondary lead in Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan and Guizhou stood at 61.11% this week, down 1.62% from the previous week, an SMM survey showed.

Operating rates across major aluminium processors decreased 1.8 percentage points from a week ago to 70.7% last week. The main reason is that the power load in Henan is too high, prompting the province to impose staggered power use, affecting production at local aluminium plate, strip, foil and wire & cable producers.

Operating rates across lead-acid battery producers in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei and Hebei provinces gained 0.4 percentage point from July 9 to 69.41% as of Friday July 16.

Operating rates across EAF steelmakers stood at 57% as of Oct 11, down 2 percentage points from the middle of Sep

Rate is expected to dip from 80% in May to 79% in Jun

It gained 0.64 percentage point from the previous week and averaged 51.91% in the week through May 24

Operating rates averaged 66.98% in Apr, down 4.27 percentage points from Mar and 7.12 percentage points from Apr 2018

Rates inched up 0.69 percentage points from the previous week and averaged 55.55% in the week through Apr 12

China produced 3.11 million mt of primary aluminium in Aug, up 1.5% year on year

Higher rates at large plants accounted for the overall growth across all plants in China