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The article reports on the six percent increase of the zinc output of Huludao Zinc Industry Co., the second-largest zinc producer of China, in 2012. It mentions that the zinc producer, which was also the major producer of indium in the country, aims to produce 350,000 tonnes of zinc products as compared to the 2011 production of 330,000 tonnes. Meanwhile, the company warned that their net loss would widen from 583 million yuan in 2010 to nearly 980 million yuan in 2011.

China's largest zinc smelter Zhuzhou Smelter Group returned to profit in 2016 amid improved cost management and higher metals prices during the year, according to the company's annual report released on Thursday April 27. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Supply-side dynamics are less important for the bull story in zinc than the levels of demand from China, according to panellists at the 20th Zinc and its Markets Seminar in Madrid, Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the decline in China's daily zinc production by 22.4 percent month-on-month in March 2012. The decline of output followed the decline in downstream demand in the first two months at time of the Chinese New Year. The country's refined zinc output is also expected to decline after the pollution scandals in Guangxi and Guangdong. Companies that stopped production include Hechi Nanfang Non-ferrous Metals, China Tin, and Jinshan Indium Germanium Metallurgy Chemical Industry.

The article reports that the daily zinc production of China has declined in the first two months of 2013. The drop in output has been attributed to production cuts and maintenance works. According to data from the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), combined output for the first two months of the year totaled 787,000 tons, representing an increase of 1.7 percent compared with a year ago. Total output for January 2013 was 398,000 tons, while February recorded an output of 389,000 tons.