Japan's Toho Zinc sees 11.6% rise in H1 zinc output

Toho Zinc

02/04/2020 08:12

TOKYO, April 2 (Reuters) - Toho Zinc Co Ltd  5707.T ,
Japan's third-biggest zinc smelter, plans to produce 46,900
tonnes of refined zinc during the April-September half of the
2020/21 financial year, up 11.6% from the same period a year
earlier, it said on Thursday.
    Following are details of the company's output plan, with
comparisons against estimated production in the second half and
actual production in the first half of the 2019/20 year that
ended on March 31.
  (Zinc and lead in tonnes): 
         H1 FY20/21  H2 FY19/20     H1 FY19/20
   Zinc      46,900      49,139         42,019
   Lead      49,500      40,491         47,004
 
 (Reporting by Yuka Obayashi; editing by Barbara Lewis)
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