Japan's Mitsui Mining expects H2 zinc output to rise 0.2%

Mitsui Kinzoku

03/10/2022 09:34

TOKYO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co
 5706.T , Japan's biggest zinc smelter, plans to produce 110,800
tonnes of refined zinc in the second half of the 2022/23
financial year, up 0.2% year on year, it said on Monday.
    The second half runs from October to March.
    Zinc is used mainly as an anti-corrosive coating while
making galvanised steel.    
    Following are details of the company's output plan, with
comparisons against estimated production in the first half of
the 2022/23 financial year and actual production in the second
half of 2021/22, which ended on March 31.
    (Zinc and lead in tonnes):  
             H2 FY22/23   H1 FY22/23     H2 FY21/22
   Zinc         110,800      112,400        110,600
   Lead          35,000       35,000         34,600
 (Reporting by Yuka Obayashi
Editing by David Goodman
)
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