Japan's Mitsui Mining sees 5.8% drop on-year in H1 zinc output

Mitsui Kinzoku

01/04/2020 06:33

TOKYO, April 1 (Reuters) - Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co Ltd
 5706.T , Japan's biggest zinc smelter, said on Wednesday it
plans to produce 105,000 tonnes of refined zinc in the first
half of financial year 2020-21, a drop of 5.8% from a year-ago
period.    
    The country's first half of the financial year falls between
April and September.
    Zinc is used mainly as an anti-corrosive coating while
manufacturing galvanised steel.
    Following are details of the company's output plan, with
comparisons against planned production in the second half and
actual production in the first half of the 2019/20 financial
year, which ended on March 31.    
    
(Zinc and lead in tonnes):        
          H1 FY20/21     H2 FY19/20          H1 FY19/20
   Zinc      105,000        108,500             111,500
   Lead       32,900         34,100              34,700
 
 (Reporting by Yuka Obayashi, Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)
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