Japan's Toho Zinc expects 2.3% fall in first-half zinc output

Toho Zinc

04/04/2022 09:49

TOKYO, April 4 (Reuters) - Toho Zinc Co Ltd  5707.T ,
Japan's third-biggest zinc smelter, plans to produce 42,900
tonnes of refined zinc in the first half of the 2022/23
financial year, down 2.3% from a year earlier, it said on
Monday.
    The country's first half falls between April and September.
    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 second half of
the 2021/22 financial year and actual production in the first
half of 2021/22.
    (Zinc and lead in tonnes, silver in kilograms): 
         H1 FY22/23  H2 FY21/22     H1 FY21/22
   Zinc      42,900      47,100         43,921
   Lead      50,500      38,100         46,256
 Silver     210,000     157,000        153,000
 
 (Reporting by Yuka Obayashi
Editing by David Goodman
)
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