DAILY: China's met coke makers maintain production cuts, demand persists

The Chinese metallurgical coke market remained flat on February 1, and domestic independent coke makers still showed no intention of lifting their production under the pressure of losses, Mysteel Global learned.

Many coke makers in North China's Shanxi province still kept their coke production in previous 30-50% cut, sources revealed. As a result, among the 230 independent coke firms under Mysteel's tracking nationwide, average capacity utilization rate of those in North China saw a marked drop of 6.7 percentage points over January