Shanghai Nonferrous Metals News
The local authorities of Shanxi published ‘Shanxi 2020 Nonferrous Metals Industry Action Plan’, unveiling a raft of policies to facilitate the development of the aluminium industry in Shanxi:
- Improvement of local bauxite supply in Shanxi
- Crack down on illegal bauxite mining
- Regulate bauxite mining activities
- Strengthen exploration/mining of under coal-bed bauxite resources
- Prioritize bauxite resource allocations to integrated aluminium smelters who relocate capacity to Shanxi
- Control of alumina capacity growth
- Establish a system for alumina project registration and management. No registration of new alumina projects will be allowed without allocated bauxite resources or associated red-mud stocking and processing measures
- Gradually containing the capacity of SGA (smelting grade alumina), encouraging SGA refineries to improve value-adds by developing various alumina products and new aluminum-based materials
- Enriching and completing local primary aluminium industry.
- Accelerate activity of existing local primary aluminium capacity
- Set up three 200 ktpy (minimum) recycled aluminum projects in south, central and northern Shanxi
- Development of leading producers in both Luliang and Yuncheng, making them centers of aluminium and magnesium smelting
