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China's H1 Al output grows 1.6%, June's slowing down

China's primary aluminum output has been remaining largely steady, as the production for the first half of 2018 grew moderately by 1.6% on year to 16.5 million tonnes, and the June output alone up 0.8% on year to about 2.8 million tonnes, according to the latest data released on July

SHFE zinc price falls to 11-m low amid weak demand

The most active zinc contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) dived to an 11-month low of Yuan 23,085/tonne ($3,551/tonne) at the close of trading on Friday's morning session, weighed down by sluggish downstream demand which translated to a higher burden of stocks, Mysteel noted.

LDC sells off global metals business to Chinese fund

Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), a world's leading trading company headquartered in Rotterdam, West Europe's Netherlands, completed selling off its global metals business LDC Metals to a Chinese fund - NCCL Natural Resources Investment Fund, according to a LDC statement on May 11.

China's Q1 industrial capacity utilization up to 76.5%

China's capacity utilization rate across heavy industrial sectors increased 0.7 percentage point year on year to 76.5% for the first quarter of 2018, according to the latest data from the country's National Bureau of Statistics.

China's metal smelters' profits slip 11.9% over Jan-Feb

Chinese non-ferrous metal smelters posted profits totaling Yuan 17.8 billion ($2.8 billion) over January and February, down 11.9% on year, according to the latest statistics released by China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on March 27.

China's 2017 industry capacity utilization at 5-y high

China's industrial capacity utilization rate for 2017 hit a five-year high at 77% on average, or up 3.7 percentage points year on year, mainly thanks to the government's excess capacity cuts in its core industries including steel as part of supply-side reform.

China's Nov Cu output up on price rebound, Al down

In November, China's copper output edged up 0.6% month on month with higher operation rates while aluminum output plunged 7.7% on month amid environmental restrictions, Mysteel understands from the market.