Aluminium industry in China has a line-up of projects ready in place to steam up production in the coming quarters. Among a number of new smelter projects and old capacity restart plans is the alumina capacity expansion plan in Henan.
East Hope (Sanmenxia) Aluminum announced that it will invest 3 billion yuan (US$441 million) to expand the capacity of its alumina refinery in Minachi County in the central China province.
{alcircleadd}The alumina refinery expansion project will include two 0.5-tonnes per annum alumina refining lines and two 25 kilowatt thermal power plants.
Mengtai Group in Inner Mongolia has also announced plans to build an aluminium project in Dalate Economic Development Zone with a total investment of 6.5 billion yuan.
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The first phase of the project will have an annual capacity of 500,000 tonnes. The construction of the first phase is scheduled for completion in the fourth quarter of the current financial year. The project will go on stream soon after that, the company updated.
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