According to Mysteel survey,China's alumina output achieved 6.675 million tons in September, which increased 13.1% YoY, but decreased 1.4% MoM due to the number of working days were less than that in August. The daily output in September was 225,800 tons,higher than 221,700 tons in August.
By the end of September,China's alumina installed capacity reached 96.7 million tons per year, rising 0.83% MoM and 8,11% YoY. The operating capacity was 80.25 million tons per year, growing 0.12% MoM and 11% YoY.
Although the alumina refineries are facing the dilemma of rising costs and low alumina prices, which resulted in some production cuts, some brownfield alumina projects are still making progress in an orderly manner.According to Mysteel, Guangxi Jingxi Tiangui Aluminum, which is a subsidiary of Tianshan Aluminum, has put its Phase III with 850,000 tons/a into operation and reached full capacity in September. Until now,. the refinery's 2.5 million tons/year of capacity has been fully commissioned. In addition, the 1.2 million tons alumina brownfield project in phase II of an alumina enterprise in Wudi, Shandong Province has officially entered the trial operation at the end of September.
Written By Zerlina Yang, Yangzirui@Mysteel.com