Japan's Mitsui Mining expects H2 zinc output to rise 9.8% y/y

Mitsui Kinzoku

02/10/2023 09:44

TOKYO, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co
Ltd  5706.T , Japan's biggest zinc smelter, plans to produce
117,800 tonnes of refined zinc in the second half of the 2023/24
financial year, up 9.8% from a year earlier, 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 first-half production of the
2023/24 year and actual second-half output of the 2022/23
financial year, which ended on March 31.   
    (Zinc and lead in tonnes):  
          H2 FY23/24     H1 FY23/24          H2 FY22/23
   Zinc      117,800        103,700             107,300
   Lead       36,200         33,800              34,900
 
 (Reporting by Yuka Obayashi; Editing by Muralikumar
Anantharaman)
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