Japan's Mitsui Mining sees H1 zinc output rising 0.9% y/y

Mitsui Kinzoku

01/04/2024 11:13

TOKYO, April 1 (Reuters) - Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co
Ltd  5706.T , Japan's biggest zinc smelter, plans to produce
104,600 metric tons of refined zinc in the first half of the
2024/25 financial year, up 0.9% from the same period a year
earlier, it said on Monday.
    The first half runs from April to September.
    Zinc is used mainly as an anti-corrosive coating while
making galvanized steel.
    Here are output plan details, with comparisons against
planned second-half production and actual first-half production 
for the 2023/24 financial year, which ended on March 31.   
    (Zinc and lead in metric tons): 
          H1 FY24/25     H2 FY23/24          H1 FY23/24
   Zinc      104,600        114,100             103,700
   Lead       35,300         37,700              33,700
   

 (Reporting by Yuka Obayashi; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)
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