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Sources report that main products from these blast furnaces were low-nickel NPI, which will not be good news for current weak low-nickel NPI market. However, 3 NPI producers among these producers who restarted production will focus on the production of middle-nickel NPI in the future, and they said market demand for middle-nickel NPI kept increasing.
Output of these 4 NPI producers will not high during early days, but their total output of low-nickel NPI will reach approximately 40kt.
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