China Battery-Grade Manganese Sulphate Output In August And Forecast For September

SHANGHAI, Sep 12 (SMM) –China's output of battery-grade manganese sulphate was 19,200 mt in August, up 10.98% MoM. Some producers returned to normal production in August and orders improved slightly compared with July. Due to output cuts at integrated enterprises who produce both precursors and manganese sulphate, the growth of domestic manganese sulphate output was insignificant.

Entering September, orders seemed to have dropped compared with August. Some producers indicate that downstream ternary precursor plants plan to cut production slightly. In this context, most producers have kept their production schedules for September basically unchanged from August, except for only a few who plan to ramp up production to meet sales targets. We see domestic battery-grade manganese sulphate output at 19,500 mt in September, up 1.56% MoM.