Japan's Mitsui Mining expects 9.5% rise in H1 zinc output

Mitsui Kinzoku

01/04/2021 09:11

TOKYO, April 1 (Reuters) - Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co Ltd
 5706.T , Japan's biggest zinc smelter, plans to produce 109,100
tonnes of refined zinc in the first half of the 2021/22
financial year that started this month, up 9.5% from a year
earlier, it said on Thursday.
    The country's first half runs from April to September.
    Zinc is used mainly as an anti-corrosive coating while
making galvanised steel.    
    Following are detail of the company'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. 
    (Zinc and lead in tonnes):        
             H1 FY21/22     H2 FY20/21     H1 FY20/21
   Zinc         109,100        115,900         99,600
   Lead          35,300         35,900         33,600
 
 (Reporting by Yuka Obayashi
Editing by David Goodman
)
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