WEEKLY: China's met coal wash plants lift production

Production of processed coking coal among the 110 affiliated and independent coking coal wash plants under Mysteel's tracking mounted for the third consecutive week during July 9-15. Their average output edged up 1.5% or by 7,900 tonnes/day to reach 533,750 tonnes/day, the results of Mysteel's latest survey show.

During the survey week, some sampled independent wash plants in North China's Shanxi province ramped up operations in response to improved market sentiment and rising coking coal prices, lifting the 110 surveyed washeries' overall production. A few days earlier over July 7-8 during his visit to Shanxi province, the country's