Japan's Furukawa expects 1.8% fall in H1 copper output

Furukawa

01/04/2021 08:35

TOKYO, April 1 (Reuters) - Japanese smelter Furukawa Co Ltd
 5715.T  plans to produce 36,859 tonnes of refined copper in the
first half of the 2021/22 financial year that started this
month, down 1.8% from the same period a year earlier, it said on
Thursday.
    The country's first half falls between April and September.
    Following are details of Furukawa's output plan, with
comparisons against planned production in the second half and
actual production in the first half of the 2020/21 financial
year that ended on March 31.  
(copper in tonnes):
            H1 FY21/22     H2 FY20/21   H1 FY20/21
 Copper         36,859         36,710       37,517
 
 (Reporting by Yuka Obayashi
Editing by David Goodman
)
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