Yunnan Province Safety Production Committee issued a notice on September 4 to push for elimination of outdated aluminum and steel capacity. According to the notice, capacities that do not meet safe production requirements shall undergo rectification. Capacities that still fail to meet safe production requirements after rectification before the end of this year shall be weeded out. Besides, capacities that meet basic safe production requirements but still have issues shall be subject to differential power tariffs, tiered power tariffs, punitive power tariffs, and higher charges for excessive use of water.
Day: September 5, 2017
State Administration of Work Safety will send 31 inspection teams to 31 regions and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in September to supervise production safety checks. Special checks and evaluations will be implemented in these regions, and the results will affect their production safety examination grade in 2017.
Source: http://www.chinasafety.gov.cn/newpage/Contents/Channel_21356/2017/0904/294016/content_294016.htm
To show its commitment to the government’s air pollution control directive for this coming autumn and winter, CHALCO Shandong Branch plans to begin further reduction in October by shutting down an entire production line and curtailing the other two. It is expected that the operating capacity will be reduced to about 950,000 tons by mid-November.
CHALCO Shandong Branch has three alumina production lines, a total capacity of 1.9 million tons per annum. Affected by the ongoing environmental checks, it has curtailed its capacity to about 1.5 million tons.
China Hongqiao has cut down a total capacity of 2.692 million tons, which is nearly 29% of its total capacity. Some of the curtailed capacity was even from its 600kA potlines. After the cuts, Hongqiao is running a capacity of 6.46 million tons, Bo Zhang, China Hongqiao Group Chief Executive, said in an interview.
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