DAILY: Downside pressures on China's met coke market loom

As more steelmakers in northern parts of China were heard to conduct maintenance, domestic demand for metallurgical coke could present further declines in the near term, indicating potential downside pressures on the coke market.

Sources reported yesterday that many steelmakers in Northwest China's Xinjiang autonomous region will gradually take their facilities offline for maintenance starting mid-November, in response to the market slowdown amid lower temperatures and heavier snowfall in the region. Among the maintenance works involving blast furnaces, some are expected to last for