21
Mar
08:48
Hebei province sets steel capacity control targets
China’s Hebei province aims to control its steelmaking capacity to under 200 million tonnes/year, according to the provincial environment protection plan for 2016-2020. Official data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows last year Hebei produced 192.6 million tonnes of crude steel, up by 2.27% year-on-year.
Hebei cut 15.89m t/y of iron and 14.05m t/y of steel capacity in 2016. Because this included a lot of inactive capacity however the i…
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