WEEKLY: China's met coal demand dips on downstream output cuts

Chinese users' appetite for domestic metallurgical coal weakened further during the week of August 25-29, in tandem with production reductions at some downstream steel mills and coke producers, Mysteel observed.

More steel mills in North China's Tangshan city trimmed operations at sintering plants, section mills and blast furnaces last week to improve local air quality, putting hurdles on their coal procurements and lowering their expectations for met coal prices. Mysteel's survey on the 247 Chinese blast-furnace steel mills showed that